Brandy
About 108,861 American babies have been named Brandy since 1942, most of them around 1981. In 2025 it ranked 3,067th. About 105,000 Brandys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Brandy boys named Brandy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 108,861
- Estimated living today
- 105,000
- Median age today
- 44
- Peak year
- 1981
- Best rank
- 41st
- Rank in 2025
- 3,067th
- First recorded
- 1942
- Girls / boys
- 106,559 / 2,302
How old the living Brandys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 108,861 babies given the name since 1942, about 105,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 270 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin English
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Brandys
- Brandy Norwood (born 1979)American singer, songwriter and actress
- Brandy Ledford (born 1969)American actress and model
- Brandy Talore (born 1982)American pornographic actress
- Brandy Aniston (born 1986)American pornographic actress
- Brandy Clark (born 1977)American singer-songwriter
People named Brandy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Brandy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Brandy is most concentrated in Louisiana (2.1×), Arkansas (1.9×), Tennessee (1.8×), Oklahoma (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1981
The most popular girls’ names the year Brandy peaked:
Brandy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Brandy | 190 | 1,200th |
| France boys | Brandy | 80 | 1,742nd |
| England and Wales girls | Brandy | 41 | 1,675th |
| Belgium girls | Brandy | 5 | 1,196th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Brandy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.