Brandie
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #12,161 · Last seen for boys in 1987 at #5,459
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1983 · 810 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,839since 1956
Brandie over time
Rank among girls' names. Brandie has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | — | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | — | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | — | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | — | |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | — | |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | — | |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | — | |
| 2015 | #7,613 | 15 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | — | |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,915 | 28 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,226 | 27 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,710 | 43 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,428 | 48 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,368 | 48 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,212 | 48 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,526 | 66 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,522 | 64 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,819 | 53 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,211 | 73 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,938 | 87 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,371 | 129 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,228 | 148 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,050 | 182 | — | |
| 1996 | #843 | 236 | — | |
| 1995 | #746 | 273 | — | |
| 1994 | #707 | 296 | — | |
| 1993 | #654 | 340 | — | |
| 1992 | #601 | 378 | — | |
| 1991 | #558 | 420 | — | |
| 1990 | #551 | 429 | — | |
| 1989 | #574 | 381 | — | |
| 1988 | #493 | 461 | — | |
| 1987 | #461 | 476 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #407 | 546 | — | |
| 1985 | #361 | 654 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #331 | 705 | — | |
| 1983 | #291 | 810 | — | |
| 1982 | #294 | 834 | — | |
| 1981 | #296 | 816 | — | |
| 1980 | #307 | 797 | — | |
| 1979 | #319 | 745 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #301 | 766 | — | |
| 1977 | #332 | 708 | — | |
| 1976 | #330 | 677 | — | |
| 1975 | #337 | 659 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #338 | 649 | — | |
| 1973 | #377 | 556 | — | |
| 1972 | #484 | 368 | — | |
| 1971 | #819 | 170 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,008 | 124 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,325 | 73 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,244 | 77 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,947 | 36 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,882 | 37 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,110 | 31 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,306 | 28 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,960 | 18 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,033 | 17 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 | — | |
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| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 | — | |
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| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Brandie! It came in at #5,325, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1958, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Brandie is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#447 · 1 in 2,321
- Kentucky#453 · 1 in 3,273
- Alabama#456 · 1 in 2,938
- Michigan#484 · 1 in 3,253
- Maryland#496 · 1 in 3,089
Best ever in a state: #97 in Vermont, 1977.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #447 | 5 | 1 in 2,321 |
| Kentucky | #453 | 6 | 1 in 3,273 |
| Alabama | #456 | 7 | 1 in 2,938 |
| Michigan | #484 | 16 | 1 in 3,253 |
| Maryland | #496 | 8 | 1 in 3,089 |
| North Carolina | #516 | 11 | 1 in 3,577 |
| South Carolina | #516 | 5 | 1 in 3,251 |
| Missouri | #588 | 7 | 1 in 4,221 |
| Texas | #641 | 33 | 1 in 4,229 |
| Arizona | #681 | 7 | 1 in 4,067 |
| Tennessee | #736 | 5 | 1 in 5,923 |
| Georgia | #779 | 7 | 1 in 5,930 |
| Ohio | #782 | 9 | 1 in 6,902 |
| Florida | #791 | 12 | 1 in 6,061 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,011 | 6 | 1 in 10,091 |
| Illinois | #1,071 | 8 | 1 in 8,931 |
| California | #1,311 | 18 | 1 in 12,766 |
| New York | #1,716 | 6 | 1 in 17,389 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Brandie
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Biggest jump: 335 spots in 1972 (#819 → #484)
- Biggest drop: 207 spots in 1997 (#843 → #1,050)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1983 at #291 (810 births)
- Births halved by 1989, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1971–1996
- Highest: 1 in 2,000 girls born in 1978 were named Brandie (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 231,456 girls born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #291 in 1983, was only 1 in 2,062 (0.05%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.9% of all girls named Brandie (6,480) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 15 | #4,300 (1959) | #4,813 |
| 1960s | 327 | #1,244 (1968) | #2,338 |
| 1970s | 5,422 | #301 (1978) | #465 |
| 1980s | 6,480 | #291 (1983) | #382 |
| 1990s | 2,831 | #551 (1990) | #831 |
| 2000s | 557 | #1,938 (2000) | #3,096 |
| 2010s | 170 | #4,915 (2011) | #7,441 |
| 2020s | 37 | #8,406 (2020) | #12,217 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brandie in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 7,428 of them was named Brandie, which outranked 94.7% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).