Brownie
Brownie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192333 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1892
- 1,231people given the name
The story in the numbers
727 girls have been named Brownie in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 33 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 33 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 35%.
Brownie is used for both sexes: 41% of its bearers are boys (504), most of them born around 1920.
By decade
In 1923, its biggest year
Brownie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1923 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Betty. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Brownie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elverapeak 1921
- Berneicepeak 1918
- Bernicepeak 1921
- Berniecepeak 1918
- Burnicepeak 1925
- Mildredpeak 1920
- Antonettapeak 1915
- Allenepeak 1926
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.