Brandice
Brandice was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 1,032 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brandice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brandice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,188, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
82 babies in 1981, the peak
Brandice peaked in 1981, when 82 girls were given it, #1,477 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #17,188 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,453 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,748 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,067 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,602 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,898 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,121 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,013 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,906 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,286 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 8 | #9,925 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,652 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,703 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,014 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,440 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,861 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,636 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,297 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,104 | 18.4 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,646 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,576 | 22.4 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,301 | 25.6 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,833 | 35.4 |
| 1984 | 52 | #1,966 | 30.9 |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,928 | 31.7 |
| 1982 | 77 | #1,533 | 45.5 |
| 1981 | 82 | #1,477 | 49.2 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,808 | 36.1 |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,251 | 26.8 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,916 | 33.3 |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,309 | 25.4 |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,066 | 28.7 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,322 | 24.0 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,706 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,172 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,410 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,326 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,867 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Brandice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brandice 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 Brandice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brandice, and how old are they?
An estimated 993 Americans named Brandice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 38 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 865 people named Brandice (857 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,004 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,292 babies since 1880, Brandice is the most given (80% of them).
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 Brandice
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 Brandice and names like it
- Compare Brandice and BrandaceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sBrandice peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brandice since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Brandice.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Brandice alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with BMost given first.