Bradley
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning broad meadow or clearing.
How Bradley has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #173 |
| 2016 | #198 |
| 2017 | #230 |
| 2018 | #247 |
| 2019 | #254 |
| 2020 | #273 |
| 2021 | #313 |
| 2022 | #344 |
| 2023 | #359 |
| 2024 | #364 |
| 2025 | #403 |
Bradley by the numbers
In 2025, 119 babies in England and Wales were named Bradley. In the US, 1,686 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 7,213 babies in 1980, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
At its height, in 1980, about 1 in 260 American boys born that year was called Bradley.
Names that come from Bradley
Forms of Bradley in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Bradley. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Bradley, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
- Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
- Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
- Haydenvalley with hay3,623 in the US (2017)
- Wesleywestern meadow3,607 in the US (2017)
- Ryleerye clearing; a respelling of Ryley2,971 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Bradley
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