Brande
Brande was last recorded in 2004, when 5 babies were given it; 1,141 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Brande and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 42 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brande by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brande?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,494, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
173 babies in 1974, the peak
Brande peaked in 1974, when 173 girls were given it, #787 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #16,494 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,557 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,710 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,873 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,662 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,901 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,684 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,860 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,037 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,556 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 15 | #6,047 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,034 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,881 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,479 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,930 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,176 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,896 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,091 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,733 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,252 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,647 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 50 | #2,063 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,491 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 51 | #2,001 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 61 | #1,708 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 74 | #1,484 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 72 | #1,447 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 110 | #1,067 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 173 | #787 | 0.12 |
| 1973 | 48 | #1,789 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 40 | #1,990 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,563 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,783 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,742 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,517 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,897 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,524 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,861 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brande a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brande has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brande: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brande, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,141 Americans ever recorded as Brande. The median Brande alive today is 48 years old; half are between 42 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 1,072 people named Brande (1,038 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,101 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 681 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 355 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 45 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 235,447 babies since 1880, Brande is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 86 babies recorded by SSA was a Brande (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brande
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Brande and names like it
- Compare Brande and BrandyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBrande peaked in 1974.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brande since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Brande.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Brande alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.