How popular is “Brandy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brandy” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brandy” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Brandy” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Brandy” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Brandy” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Brandy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brandy” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1942	6	0.000002196	6		100%
1943	8	0.000002834	8		100%
1944	6	0.00000223	6		100%
1945	6	0.000002262	6		100%
1946	5	0.000001565	5		100%
1947	8	0.000002221	8		100%
1948	8	0.000002317	8		100%
1949	17	0.000004878	17		100%
1950	12	0.000003425	12		100%
1951	15	0.000004072	10	5	33%
1952	24	0.000006319	24		100%
1953	28	0.000007266	21	7	50%
1954	24	0.000006029	24		100%
1955	27	0.000006725	27		100%
1956	20	0.000004851	13	7	30%
1957	26	0.000006187	20	6	54%
1958	31	0.000007499	23	8	48%
1959	39	0.00000938	28	11	44%
1960	45	0.000010833	37	8	64%
1961	37	0.000008932	32	5	73%
1962	54	0.000013382	45	9	67%
1963	84	0.000021222	70	14	67%
1964	109	0.000028038	98	11	80%
1965	104	0.000028686	90	14	73%
1966	121	0.000034814	100	21	65%
1967	180	0.000053021	154	26	71%
1968	317	0.000093831	286	31	80%
1969	360	0.000103587	330	30	83%
1970	667	0.000184943	610	57	83%
1971	752	0.000219092	704	48	87%
1972	2162	0.000687879	2082	80	93%
1973	3792	0.001256925	3715	77	96%
1974	3931	0.001293093	3832	99	95%
1975	5047	0.001671528	4944	103	96%
1976	5303	0.001747685	5232	71	97%
1977	5542	0.001744691	5477	65	98%
1978	6798	0.002141865	6699	99	97%
1979	6859	0.002061617	6775	84	98%
1980	6484	0.001882418	6410	74	98%
1981	6962	0.002012502	6897	65	98%
1982	6142	0.001750874	6078	64	98%
1983	5255	0.001517322	5194	61	98%
1984	4629	0.001326834	4580	49	98%
1985	3952	0.001107279	3901	51	97%
1986	3369	0.000947126	3295	74	96%
1987	3079	0.000853946	3032	47	97%
1988	2734	0.00073991	2686	48	96%
1989	2496	0.000649248	2454	42	97%
1990	2302	0.000582419	2265	37	97%
1991	2095	0.000537832	2060	35	97%
1992	1848	0.000481091	1814	34	96%
1993	1548	0.00041058	1520	28	96%
1994	1384	0.000372278	1350	34	95%
1995	1539	0.000420244	1508	31	96%
1996	1393	0.000381937	1366	27	96%
1997	1134	0.000312763	1112	22	96%
1998	1078	0.000293078	1058	20	96%
1999	878	0.000237691	855	23	95%
2000	736	0.000194714	719	17	95%
2001	612	0.000163488	587	25	92%
2002	586	0.000156756	559	27	91%
2003	476	0.000125187	454	22	91%
2004	441	0.000115417	417	24	89%
2005	411	0.000106896	378	33	84%
2006	365	0.000092261	342	23	87%
2007	337	0.000084299	313	24	86%
2008	278	0.000070726	250	28	80%
2009	260	0.00006806	233	27	79%
2010	199	0.000053846	177	22	78%
2011	168	0.000045929	146	22	74%
2012	147	0.000040193	132	15	80%
2013	139	0.000038127	121	18	74%
2014	109	0.000029409	93	16	71%
2015	77	0.000020806	66	11	71%
2016	92	0.000025077	80	12	74%
2017	82	0.000022929	69	13	68%
2018	78	0.000022185	65	13	67%
2019	55	0.000015846	49	6	78%
2020	53	0.000015866	47	6	77%
2021	43	0.000012692	43		100%
2022	56	0.000016553	43	13	54%
2023	63	0.000019026	57	6	81%
2024	61	0.000018327	49	12	61%

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