Meaning not yet researched.
Brandi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #50 in 1981.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #50 in 1981; #4,785 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brandi in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,785 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1981, at #50.
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Brandi: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 girls in 2025. Peak: #50 in 1981 · most girls in one year: 5,527 (1981).
In 2025, 28 US girls were named Brandi, making it the 4,785th most common girls’ name of the year, down 477 places from #4,308 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 33 girls named Brandi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #50, reached in 1981. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,527. For comparison, it was #1,886 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brandi in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 102,295 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 43,090 babies named Brandi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 560 US girls were named Brandi; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 82. In 2025 that was about 1 in 57,402 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brandy (108,861 babies since 1880), Brandie (15,868 babies since 1880), Brandee (5,486 babies since 1880) and Brande (1,141 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brandina are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brandina (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Brandi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,785 | — | — |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,308 | — | — |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,481 | — | — |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,682 | — | — |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,935 | — | — |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,758 | — | — |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 2017 | 78 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 2016 | 82 | #2,310 | — | — |
| 2015 | 108 | #1,886 | — | — |
| 2014 | 83 | #2,256 | — | — |
| 2013 | 142 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 2012 | 159 | #1,437 | — | — |
| 2011 | 174 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 2010 | 156 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 2009 | 201 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 2008 | 251 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 2007 | 274 | #979 | — | — |
| 2006 | 269 | #973 | 6 | #10,836 |
| 2005 | 333 | #780 | — | — |
| 2004 | 411 | #667 | — | — |
| 2003 | 449 | #606 | — | — |
| 2002 | 523 | #525 | — | — |
| 2001 | 604 | #458 | — | — |
| 2000 | 744 | #388 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,023 | #302 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,202 | #257 | 6 | #8,597 |
| 1997 | 1,484 | #199 | 5 | #9,433 |
| 1996 | 1,952 | #161 | 6 | #8,069 |
| 1995 | 2,571 | #124 | 7 | #7,073 |
| 1994 | 2,635 | #122 | — | — |
| 1993 | 2,692 | #124 | 5 | #8,858 |
| 1992 | 2,968 | #110 | 9 | #5,704 |
| 1991 | 3,090 | #110 | 9 | #5,565 |
| 1990 | 3,338 | #103 | 5 | #8,258 |
| 1989 | 3,250 | #98 | 20 | #2,998 |
| 1988 | 3,169 | #91 | 12 | #3,934 |
| 1987 | 3,244 | #88 | 14 | #3,360 |
| 1986 | 3,432 | #79 | 19 | #2,695 |
| 1985 | 4,045 | #69 | 19 | #2,609 |
| 1984 | 4,848 | #61 | 27 | #1,985 |
| 1983 | 5,203 | #56 | 20 | #2,419 |
| 1982 | 5,469 | #55 | 20 | #2,435 |
| 1981 | 5,527 | #50 | 24 | #2,143 |
| 1980 | 4,703 | #63 | 25 | #2,118 |
| 1979 | 4,609 | #61 | 27 | #1,945 |
| 1978 | 4,500 | #61 | 23 | #2,076 |
| 1977 | 3,885 | #71 | 24 | #2,010 |
| 1976 | 3,537 | #79 | 16 | #2,616 |
| 1975 | 3,369 | #88 | 9 | #3,686 |
| 1974 | 2,809 | #106 | 11 | #3,152 |
| 1973 | 2,843 | #109 | 15 | #2,519 |
| 1972 | 2,055 | #141 | 6 | #4,497 |
| 1971 | 795 | #330 | — | — |
| 1970 | 676 | #365 | — | — |
| 1969 | 436 | #464 | — | — |
| 1968 | 378 | #501 | — | — |
| 1967 | 175 | #738 | — | — |
| 1966 | 138 | #850 | — | — |
| 1965 | 107 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1964 | 78 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1963 | 76 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,119 | — | — |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,051 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,468 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,572 | — | — |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,279 | — | — |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,266 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,313 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).