Brandi
Brandi was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,784 among girls’ names; 102,295 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 98,500 Americans named Brandi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 35 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brandi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brandi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brandi is “a female given name from English, variant of Brandy.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brandi?
#4,784 among girls’ names, 2025
Brandi fell from #1,886 in 2015 to #4,784 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 60.5 to 17.4 per million.
5,551 babies in 1981, the peak
Brandi peaked in 1981, when 5,551 babies were given it (5,527 girls, #50 among girls’ names). The 28 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,784 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,307 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,480 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,964 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,682 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,935 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,758 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,876 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 78 | #2,342 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 82 | #2,310 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 108 | #1,886 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 83 | #2,256 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 142 | #1,540 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 159 | #1,437 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 174 | #1,336 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 156 | #1,451 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 201 | #1,235 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 251 | #1,043 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 274 | #979 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 269 | #973 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 333 | #780 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 411 | #667 | 0.22 |
| 2003 | 449 | #606 | 0.25 |
| 2002 | 523 | #525 | 0.29 |
| 2001 | 604 | #458 | 0.34 |
| 2000 | 744 | #388 | 0.41 |
| 1999 | 1,023 | #302 | 0.58 |
| 1998 | 1,202 | #257 | 0.68 |
| 1997 | 1,484 | #199 | 0.85 |
| 1996 | 1,952 | #161 | 1.1 |
| 1995 | 2,571 | #124 | 1.5 |
| 1994 | 2,635 | #122 | 1.5 |
| 1993 | 2,692 | #124 | 1.5 |
| 1992 | 2,968 | #110 | 1.6 |
| 1991 | 3,090 | #110 | 1.6 |
| 1990 | 3,338 | #103 | 1.8 |
| 1989 | 3,250 | #98 | 1.8 |
| 1988 | 3,169 | #91 | 1.8 |
| 1987 | 3,244 | #88 | 1.9 |
| 1986 | 3,432 | #79 | 2.0 |
| 1985 | 4,045 | #69 | 2.4 |
| 1984 | 4,848 | #61 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5,203 | #56 | 3.1 |
| 1982 | 5,469 | #55 | 3.2 |
| 1981 | 5,527 | #50 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 4,703 | #63 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 4,609 | #61 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 4,500 | #61 | 2.9 |
| 1977 | 3,885 | #71 | 2.5 |
| 1976 | 3,537 | #79 | 2.4 |
| 1975 | 3,369 | #88 | 2.3 |
| 1974 | 2,809 | #106 | 1.9 |
| 1973 | 2,843 | #109 | 1.9 |
| 1972 | 2,055 | #141 | 1.4 |
| 1971 | 795 | #330 | 0.48 |
| 1970 | 676 | #365 | 0.39 |
| 1969 | 436 | #464 | 0.26 |
| 1968 | 378 | #501 | 0.23 |
| 1967 | 175 | #738 | 0.11 |
| 1966 | 138 | #850 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 107 | #1,009 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 78 | #1,247 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 76 | #1,262 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,118 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,845 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,050 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,467 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,571 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,459 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,277 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,174 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,265 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,311 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brandi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brandi has been given almost only to girls: 389 boys in 74 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brandi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brandi, and how old are they?
98,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 102,295 Americans ever recorded as Brandi. The median Brandi alive today is 42 years old; half are between 35 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 84,737 people named Brandi (84,550 women and girls, 187 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 99,203 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 261 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 33,200 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 55,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 887 |
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 Brandi born?
The states with the most babies named Brandi are Texas, California and Ohio, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10,476 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 8,129 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 4,980 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 4,447 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 4,443 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Louisiana | 4,070 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 3,825 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 3,664 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 3,527 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 3,378 | not ranked | 1.6× |
Where Brandi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brandi is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1949 it was given 2.0 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 Brandi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 235,447 babies since 1880, Brandi is the second most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 86 babies (33%), again the second most given.
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 Brandi
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 Brandi and names like it
- Compare Brandi and BrandyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBrandi peaked in 1981.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brandi since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Brandi.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brandi alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.