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 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Idaho#157 · 1 in 691
- Mississippi#191 · 1 in 820
- Louisiana#197 · 1 in 1,009
- New Mexico#198 · 1 in 788
- South Dakota#205 · 1 in 940
Best ever in a state: #97 in Vermont, 1977.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #157 | 10 | 1 in 691 |
| Mississippi | #191 | 19 | 1 in 820 |
| Louisiana | #197 | 29 | 1 in 1,009 |
| New Mexico | #198 | 11 | 1 in 788 |
| South Dakota | #205 | 5 | 1 in 940 |
| Kentucky | #213 | 21 | 1 in 1,166 |
| Arkansas | #219 | 12 | 1 in 1,080 |
| Kansas | #228 | 12 | 1 in 1,198 |
| Georgia | #231 | 28 | 1 in 1,200 |
| Hawaii | #236 | 6 | 1 in 794 |
| Oklahoma | #236 | 15 | 1 in 1,234 |
| Utah | #236 | 13 | 1 in 1,236 |
| Tennessee | #243 | 20 | 1 in 1,424 |
| Nebraska | #250 | 7 | 1 in 1,472 |
| Texas | #252 | 85 | 1 in 1,307 |
| Missouri | #266 | 20 | 1 in 1,614 |
| Iowa | #269 | 11 | 1 in 1,791 |
| Maryland | #270 | 12 | 1 in 1,623 |
| North Carolina | #272 | 20 | 1 in 1,643 |
| Ohio | #276 | 37 | 1 in 1,948 |
| Alabama | #279 | 15 | 1 in 1,528 |
| Virginia | #281 | 17 | 1 in 1,717 |
| West Virginia | #299 | 6 | 1 in 2,030 |
| Florida | #301 | 26 | 1 in 1,803 |
| Indiana | #302 | 18 | 1 in 2,013 |
| Michigan | #309 | 27 | 1 in 2,207 |
| Oregon | #330 | 9 | 1 in 1,865 |
| California | #344 | 85 | 1 in 1,922 |
| Arizona | #346 | 10 | 1 in 1,786 |
| Minnesota | #406 | 8 | 1 in 3,472 |
| Wisconsin | #412 | 8 | 1 in 3,824 |
| Colorado | #415 | 7 | 1 in 2,665 |
| Washington | #422 | 9 | 1 in 2,813 |
| Pennsylvania | #444 | 19 | 1 in 3,600 |
| Illinois | #449 | 24 | 1 in 3,112 |
| Massachusetts | #523 | 6 | 1 in 5,108 |
| New York | #577 | 23 | 1 in 4,301 |
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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 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 2,155 of them was named Brandie, which outranked 97.3% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 286,923 of them was named Brandie, which outranked 24.3% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,842Zebulah7
- #4,842Zeus7
- #4,842Zoltan7
- #5,355Brandie6
- #5,355Aasim6
- #5,355Abdallah6
- #5,355Abdula6
- #6,056Aakash5
- #6,056Aarn5
- #6,056Aaryn5
Tied with 700 names at #5,355; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.