Meaning not yet researched.
Brandy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 53 in 2025. Its best rank was #37 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #37 in 1978; #3,072 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Brandy in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,072 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #37.
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Brandy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 53 girls in 2025. Peak: #37 in 1978 · most girls in one year: 6,898 (1981).
In 2025, 53 US girls were named Brandy, making it the 3,072nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 164 places from #3,236 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 49 girls named Brandy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #37, reached in 1978. The most girls given the name in a single year was 6,898, in 1981. For comparison, it was #2,687 in 2015 and #3,071 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brandy in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 6 babies. In all, 108,861 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 45,102 babies named Brandy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 556 US girls were named Brandy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 80. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,326 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brandi (102,295 babies since 1880), Brandie (15,868 babies since 1880), Brandee (5,486 babies since 1880) and Brandyn (5,206 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brandye, Brandey and Brandii are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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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: Brandye (485), Brandey (209), Brandii (194), Brandia (19), Brandea (5).
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 Brandy in the open dataset we use.
Brandy is listed as a nickname for Brenda.
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 | 53 | #3,072 | 5 | #12,310 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,236 | 12 | #6,895 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,941 | 6 | #11,022 |
| 2022 | 44 | #3,547 | 13 | #6,536 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,557 | — | — |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,293 | 6 | #10,790 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,232 | 6 | #10,981 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,652 | 13 | #6,396 |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,550 | 13 | #6,369 |
| 2016 | 80 | #2,347 | 12 | #6,783 |
| 2015 | 66 | #2,687 | 11 | #7,133 |
| 2014 | 93 | #2,082 | 16 | #5,509 |
| 2013 | 121 | #1,714 | 18 | #5,003 |
| 2012 | 132 | #1,633 | 15 | #5,749 |
| 2011 | 146 | #1,515 | 22 | #4,384 |
| 2010 | 177 | #1,329 | 22 | #4,377 |
| 2009 | 233 | #1,093 | 27 | #3,844 |
| 2008 | 250 | #1,046 | 28 | #3,750 |
| 2007 | 314 | #887 | 24 | #4,138 |
| 2006 | 342 | #798 | 23 | #4,116 |
| 2005 | 378 | #723 | 33 | #3,096 |
| 2004 | 417 | #657 | 24 | #3,744 |
| 2003 | 454 | #600 | 22 | #3,848 |
| 2002 | 559 | #496 | 27 | #3,269 |
| 2001 | 587 | #474 | 25 | #3,422 |
| 2000 | 720 | #398 | 17 | #4,420 |
| 1999 | 855 | #351 | 23 | #3,384 |
| 1998 | 1,058 | #284 | 20 | #3,606 |
| 1997 | 1,112 | #261 | 22 | #3,269 |
| 1996 | 1,366 | #215 | 27 | #2,756 |
| 1995 | 1,508 | #195 | 31 | #2,450 |
| 1994 | 1,350 | #214 | 34 | #2,311 |
| 1993 | 1,520 | #195 | 28 | #2,585 |
| 1992 | 1,814 | #168 | 34 | #2,219 |
| 1991 | 2,060 | #148 | 35 | #2,100 |
| 1990 | 2,266 | #137 | 37 | #2,016 |
| 1989 | 2,454 | #121 | 42 | #1,797 |
| 1988 | 2,686 | #107 | 48 | #1,529 |
| 1987 | 3,032 | #92 | 47 | #1,506 |
| 1986 | 3,295 | #84 | 74 | #1,089 |
| 1985 | 3,901 | #70 | 51 | #1,357 |
| 1984 | 4,580 | #64 | 49 | #1,351 |
| 1983 | 5,194 | #57 | 61 | #1,155 |
| 1982 | 6,077 | #50 | 64 | #1,140 |
| 1981 | 6,898 | #41 | 65 | #1,133 |
| 1980 | 6,410 | #42 | 74 | #1,047 |
| 1979 | 6,775 | #39 | 84 | #965 |
| 1978 | 6,699 | #37 | 99 | #865 |
| 1977 | 5,477 | #51 | 65 | #1,072 |
| 1976 | 5,232 | #55 | 71 | #990 |
| 1975 | 4,944 | #57 | 103 | #818 |
| 1974 | 3,832 | #80 | 99 | #808 |
| 1973 | 3,715 | #82 | 77 | #914 |
| 1972 | 2,081 | #140 | 80 | #894 |
| 1971 | 705 | #353 | 48 | #1,183 |
| 1970 | 610 | #385 | 57 | #1,081 |
| 1969 | 330 | #541 | 30 | #1,467 |
| 1968 | 286 | #565 | 31 | #1,395 |
| 1967 | 154 | #805 | 26 | #1,509 |
| 1966 | 100 | #1,042 | 21 | #1,686 |
| 1965 | 90 | #1,110 | 14 | #2,191 |
| 1964 | 98 | #1,105 | 11 | #2,554 |
| 1963 | 70 | #1,321 | 14 | #2,214 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,692 | 9 | #2,865 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,074 | 5 | #4,132 |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,857 | 8 | #3,117 |
| 1959 | 28 | #2,158 | 11 | #2,548 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,387 | 8 | #3,061 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,569 | 6 | #3,604 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,344 | 7 | #3,247 |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,190 | — | — |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,304 | 7 | #3,170 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,512 | 5 | #3,773 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,071 | — | — |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,923 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,034 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,030 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,072 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,114 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,529 | — | — |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,173 | — | — |
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).