Brandy
Brandy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 49 births. Its best rank was 37th, in 1978.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 490.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19816,897 births
- Best rank
- #37in 1978
- Since 1942
- 108,799people given the name
The story in the numbers
106,502 girls have been named Brandy in the United States since 1942, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1981, with 6,897 births — 0.41% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 49 births in 2024, against 6,897 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1981, and the 1980s alone account for 42%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 15 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,297 boys have also been given it, 2.1% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Brandy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 64 | |
| 1950s | 202 | |
| 1960s | 1,242 | |
| 1970s | 40,070 | |
| 1980s | 44,527 | |
| 1990s | 14,908 | |
| 2000s | 4,252 | |
| 2010s | 998 | |
| 2020s | 239 |
In 1981, its biggest year
Brandy was the 41st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1981 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1981.
Names that rose and fell with Brandy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tanekapeak 1982
- Lakieshapeak 1979
- Tameikapeak 1977
- Nacolepeak 1979
- Tanikapeak 1982
- Lashaundapeak 1979
- Lashanapeak 1979
- Brandiepeak 1982
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.