Given name
Brandie
“a woman wielding a sword; an alcoholic drink”
Brandie is a variant of Brandy. One English interpretation is “a woman wielding a sword; an alcoholic drink.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Brandie is a variant of Brandy. One English interpretation is “a woman wielding a sword; an alcoholic drink.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Brandie is a variant of Brandy. An origin associated with Brandy is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1956. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Brandie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15,868
- 29 boys · 15,839 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 834 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −58%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 834 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 12,730 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Brandie’s family of names
Brandie has a related form in Brandy.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Brandie
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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