Bradi
Feminine · “the broad clearing”
Bradi takes a man's short name and adds a single letter. Brad is Bradley cut down, and Bradley is a broad clearing — the same leah ending that closes Ashley, Shirley and half the place names in England. Adding an i is the least effortful way American naming has ever found to make a woman's name, and it has been doing it for a century.
How old is the name Bradi?
Bradi first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Bradi alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 600 people named Bradi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Bradi most popular?
Bradi peaked in 1996, reaching #3831 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 9,377 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
From brad leah to Bradi
The story of Bradi
Bradley was an English place name, then a surname, then an American first name given in very large numbers in the second half of the twentieth century. Brad came off it immediately. The habit of making a woman's name by putting an i on a man's short form is older than that and thoroughly established — Toni, Jodi, Randi, Terri, Bobbi — and it produced a whole cohort of names in the same decades. Bradi belongs squarely to that group, which means it is dated in the way all cohort names are dated, and also that it is entirely legible to anyone who was there.
Meaning
the broad clearing
From the Old English brad, broad, and leah, a woodland clearing or glade. The second element is one of the commonest in English place names — it is the -ley in Ashley, Beverley, Shirley and hundreds of villages — and it always means the same thing: open ground in woodland.
How the name formed
- brad leah
- Bradley
- Brad
- Bradi
Pronouncing Bradi
BRAD-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. It is said identically to Brady, which is a common surname and given name — the only difference is on paper.
Nicknames for Bradi
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1970
- Most girls named
- 199628 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3831reached in 1996
- Change vs 2022
- −25.0%6 in 2025, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Bradis among us
people named Bradi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Bradi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Bradi
- #13208
- Bradi on the 2025 chart
- #902
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Bradi went to 6 girls in 2025, but Brady is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 58, which makes it the 902nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 12,306 places above the chart.
- Brady52
- Bradi6
About 1 girl in 27,712 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 267,878 for Bradi itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jowanna test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Bradi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jowanna climbed just as high around 1959, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jowanna's path sketches the road Bradi is walking now.
Bradi sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Bradi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Bradi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Five letters, two syllables, and completely transparent to any English reader.
- The Old English place name behind it has a concrete and easily pictured meaning.
- It is genuinely uncommon while sounding entirely familiar.
- Brady is a well-known surname and men's name said exactly the same way, and the two will be confused constantly.
- The i-ending style belongs to a particular stretch of American naming and dates a name to it.
- Brad, the obvious short form, reads as a man's name to nearly everyone.
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Frequently asked
- How many Bradis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Bradi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Bradi?
- Bradi is one of 2 recorded spellings. Brady is the more common one — 52 births in 2025 against 6 for Bradi.
- How popular is the name Bradi in 2025?
- Bradi ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Bradi?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Bradi — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Bradi with classmates?
- Bradi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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