Brownie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Brownie

The Social Security Administration has registered 727 babies named Brownie between 1892 and 1962, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Brownie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1962. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 33 babies received it in a single year. Brownie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 504 additional births since 1904.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Brownie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 253 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Brownie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 96 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Brownie in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Brownie 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 727 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.