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Name Brad

Meaning:

broad clearing

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About the name Brad in particular

Gender:	male
Languages of use:	English
Is short form of:	Bradley
US 2021 rank:	not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below
Similarly written:	Brady, Bram, Brand, Bras Details

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About Bradley, the group of names with the same origin as Brad

Meaning/translation:	broad clearing
Language of origin:	Old English
Info about origin:	from a family name which derives from a place name meaning broad clearing
Words:	brad = broad Old English
	leah = the wood (in the sense of forest), the clearing (open place within a wood), the meadow Old English
Topics:	Family name, Geographic name
Variants' top ranks:	31:Bradley England+Wales 1998, 123:Brad USA 1970-1979, 740:Bradly USA 1997
Name variants:	Brad, Bradley, Bradly Sortable list Details

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Popularity lists that contain the name Brad

Series	Graph	Rankings
USA decades	Graph	1990-1999 443, 1980-1989 192, 1970-1979 123, 1960-1969 151
USA yearly	Graph	2007 954, 2006 906, 2005 824, 2004 836, 2003 807, 2002 747, 2001 684, 2000 632, 1999 603, 1998 579, 1997 521, 1996 497, 1995 512, 1994 515, 1993 463