Feminine dossier · first seen 1942

Brandy

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Brandy
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.3% from peak

Peak era

1981

Peak rank proxy

6,897

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Millennial

1942Peak 19812024

Peak year

1981

Decline from peak

99.3%

2024

All-time

106,502

Brandy once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1981, when 6,897 girls were named Brandy.

In 2024, only 49 girls were given the name.

Down 99.3% from its peak.

All told, about 106,502 Americans have been named Brandy and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1942.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationMillennial

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.3% from peak

19816,897 girls named Brandy

202449 girls named Brandy

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