The name given to Miranda Hobbes's son on the dearly departed "Sex and the City" is a friendly and energetic choice. You well might want to make your son part of the Brady bunch.

Brady has been a well used boy's name since the turn-of-the-last-century Diamond Jim Brady days, but it's had its highest numbers in the past two decades, now slightly down at Number 135.

Brady Fuller is a young werewolf in the "Twilight" series, but there were more notable Bradys bearing it as a surname, including Civil War photographer Mathew, press secretary James, and quarterback Tom--in addition of course to Mike, Carol, Greg, Marsha, and Jan et al.