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Branda

Girls' name

Variant of Brandy

Branda has been given to 1,102 babies in the U.S. since 1945. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1973, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Branda, 2009

1 in 764,000

Branda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Branda: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Brandy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Branda means

Branda is a variant of Brandy.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Branda is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɹæn.də/ for Branda.

Origin, language, and formation

Branda is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Brandy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,102 girls were recorded with the name Branda between 1945 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1973; its best national rank was #2,177 in 1973.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Branda?

Branda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Branda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Branda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brandas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Branda was born before 1979 — so the typical Branda is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,091
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (272).

Is Branda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1973 (36)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,177
1973

Spellings of Branda

Branda is not the most common spelling — Amanda is, with 28.2% against Branda's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Branda is used

Across 1910–2025, Branda was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 816,335 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Branda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Branda around the world

Where Branda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1994–2005
    #5,227
    in 2005
  • Canada
    1995–1997
    #2,443
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Branda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,177
1973
Peak year
1973
36 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
1,102
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Branda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BrazilBraylaBradieBrailynBraileyBrachaBraxtonBraylenBraylynBraylinBraileeBraleyBraylieBrandeBradiBradleyBrayaBradyBralynnBrayahBrailynnBradleeBrantleyBrayli

Sibling names for Branda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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