Brany — girls' name

What the Data Says About Brany

The Social Security Administration has registered 36 babies named Brany between 1986 and 2021, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Brany currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 6 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brany performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 16 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Brany shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 26 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Brany in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brany 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 36 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.