Brandy

Girl name

Brandy has been given to 108,861 babies in the U.S. since 1942. It peaked in 1981.

Meaning & origin /ˈbɹændi/

Origin: English

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Total babies

108,861

Peak year

1981 (6,963 babies)

Rank in 2025

Below top 1000

First recorded

1942

10-year trend

▼ -25%

Gender split

98% girls / 2% boys

Brandy Norwood

American singer, songwriter and actress (born 1979)

Notability data from Wikidata (CC0).

Same primary gender, peaked around the same years, and roughly as common as Brandy.

112,067 babies since 1880

103,657 babies since 1884

102,295 babies since 1949

101,731 babies since 1895

101,086 babies since 1915

100,536 babies since 1886

117,481 babies since 1905

98,788 babies since 1936

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