Boy
Bradley
The name Bradley carries the meaning "From the broad wood or meadow", with roots in English. It has faded some since the 1980s without dropping off entirely. These days, it is familiar to most people. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.
EnglishFrom the broad wood or meadow
Old EnglishWide clearing in the wood
Births by decade
1900s
128
1910s
479
1920s
879
1930s
1,831
1940s
5,547
1950s
29,535
1960s
48,884
1970s
59,008
1980s
69,779
1990s
48,266
2000s
23,748
2010s
17,442
Peaked in the 1980s · 305,526 total U.S. births since 1900