Brandy — #3227 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Brandy

The Social Security Administration has registered 106,502 babies named Brandy between 1942 and 2024, spanning 83 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Brandy currently holds the #3227 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 6,897 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brandy performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 44,527 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Brandy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 10,303 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Brandy in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brandy in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 106,502 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.