Brandee
Brandee was last recorded in 2020, when 7 babies were given it; 5,486 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,270 Americans named Brandee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 35 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brandee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brandee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,361, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
253 babies in 1975, the peak
Brandee peaked in 1975, when 253 girls were given it, #622 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | #12,361 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,094 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,940 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,223 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,581 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,555 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,119 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,703 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,250 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,689 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 25 | #5,563 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,747 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,737 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,574 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,829 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,003 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,041 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,079 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,705 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,456 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 61 | #2,404 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,065 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,769 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 110 | #1,483 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 143 | #1,198 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 161 | #1,114 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 130 | #1,298 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 163 | #1,097 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 116 | #1,380 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 166 | #1,064 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 195 | #919 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 182 | #930 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 140 | #1,088 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 146 | #1,033 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 151 | #1,008 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 141 | #1,013 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 214 | #756 | 0.13 |
| 1982 | 210 | #780 | 0.12 |
| 1981 | 182 | #853 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 231 | #726 | 0.14 |
| 1979 | 214 | #754 | 0.13 |
| 1978 | 205 | #753 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 204 | #748 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 244 | #632 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 253 | #622 | 0.17 |
| 1974 | 223 | #672 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 245 | #623 | 0.17 |
| 1972 | 177 | #775 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 76 | #1,391 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 72 | #1,430 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 41 | #1,956 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,855 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,279 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,763 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,224 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,714 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,042 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,350 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brandee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brandee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Brandee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brandee, and how old are they?
5,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 5,486 Americans ever recorded as Brandee. The median Brandee alive today is 43 years old; half are between 35 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 4,679 people named Brandee (4,658 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,320 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 27 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,150 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,480 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 549 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 65 |
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).
Where are babies named Brandee born?
The states with the most babies named Brandee are California, Texas and Ohio, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 703 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 444 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 199 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 179 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 169 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Utah | 148 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 130 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 120 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 109 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 99 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Brandee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brandee is most over-represented in Utah: since 1961 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Brandee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Brandee?
Brandee is a less common spelling of Brandy: SSA has recorded 5,486 Brandee and 108,861 Brandy since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 235,447 babies since 1880, Brandee is the fourth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 86 babies recorded by SSA was a Brandee (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 Brandee
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 Brandee and names like it
- Compare Brandee and BrandyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBrandee peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brandee since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Brandee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brandee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.