Brownie
Brownie was last recorded in 1962, when 6 babies were given it; 1,231 Americans have been recorded with it between 1892 and 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brownie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brownie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,926, in 1962; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1923, the peak
Brownie peaked in 1923, when 53 babies were given it (33 girls, #1,393 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 6 | #5,926 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 7 | #3,313 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 8 | #2,987 | |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,203 | 6 | #3,489 |
| 1953 | under 5 | 7 | #3,171 | |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,529 | 6 | #3,404 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,899 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,923 | 6 | #3,356 |
| 1947 | under 5 | 8 | #2,901 | |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,483 | 10 | #2,413 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 8 | #3,421 | 6 | #3,024 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,411 | 11 | #2,204 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,063 | 9 | #2,581 |
| 1942 | under 5 | 7 | #2,962 | |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,609 | 6 | #3,182 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,247 | 14 | #1,908 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,469 | 6 | #3,153 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,601 | 10 | #2,346 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,585 | 16 | #1,764 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,708 | 10 | #2,313 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,757 | 15 | #1,847 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,929 | 17 | #1,730 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,846 | 6 | #3,318 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,963 | 13 | #2,110 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,952 | 9 | #2,677 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,208 | 12 | #2,315 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,957 | 13 | #2,219 |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,430 | 8 | #3,104 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,104 | 18 | #1,876 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,779 | 12 | #2,447 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,755 | 13 | #2,327 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,615 | 19 | #1,849 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,393 | 20 | #1,759 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,840 | 9 | #3,048 |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,628 | 14 | #2,273 |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,475 | 22 | #1,650 |
| 1919 | 30 | #1,428 | 17 | #1,886 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,574 | 16 | #2,008 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,008 | 21 | #1,594 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,540 | 19 | #1,648 |
| 1915 | 29 | #1,320 | 16 | #1,797 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,491 | 11 | #1,989 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,685 | 5 | #2,877 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,629 | 6 | #2,312 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,175 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,178 | 5 | #1,623 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,485 | 5 | #1,480 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,453 | 5 | #1,401 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,554 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,177 | 5 | #1,228 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,505 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,451 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,578 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,613 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,297 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,486 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Brownie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,231 Americans recorded as Brownie, 59% are girls and 41% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brownie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brownie, and how old are they?
An estimated 149 Americans named Brownie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 82 years old and half are between 74 and 88. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 342 people named Brownie (191 women and girls, 151 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 245 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Brownie born?
The states with the most babies named Brownie are Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 111 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| Georgia | 27 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 25 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Brownie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brownie is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 3.7 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 Brownie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brownie
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 Brownie and names like it
- Compare Brownie and MozellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBrownie peaked in 1923.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brownie since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Brownie.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Brownie alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with BMost given first.