Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Brownie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Brownie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Brownie” 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 “Brownie” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Brownie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Brownie” 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
1892 5 0.000014953 5 100%
1893 6 0.000018449 6 100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1904 15 0.000037176 10 5 33%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 100%
1908 14 0.00002865 9 5 29%
1909 14 0.000027385 9 5 29%
1910 11 0.000018622 6 5 9%
1911 15 0.000023282 15 100%
1912 18 0.000018217 12 6 33%
1913 18 0.00001583 13 5 44%
1914 30 0.000021181 19 11 27%
1915 45 0.000024558 29 16 29%
1916 43 0.000022229 24 19 12%
1917 38 0.000018936 17 21 -11%
1918 42 0.000019345 26 16 24%
1919 47 0.000022272 30 17 28%
1920 52 0.000022982 30 22 15%
1921 41 0.000017563 27 14 32%
1922 31 0.000013542 22 9 42%
1923 53 0.000023019 33 20 25%
1924 47 0.000019735 28 19 19%
1925 37 0.000015857 24 13 30%
1926 35 0.000015245 23 12 31%
1927 36 0.000015522 18 18 0%
1928 38 0.000016807 30 8 58%
1929 31 0.000014141 18 13 16%
1930 27 0.000012144 15 12 11%
1931 26 0.000012355 17 9 31%
1932 30 0.000014209 17 13 13%
1933 24 0.000012003 18 6 50%
1934 34 0.000016371 17 17 0%
1935 25 0.000011962 10 15 -20%
1936 20 0.000009627 10 10 0%
1937 27 0.000012672 11 16 -19%
1938 21 0.000009491 11 10 5%
1939 13 0.0000059 7 6 8%
1940 22 0.000009554 8 14 -27%
1941 13 0.000005336 7 6 8%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1943 19 0.000006731 10 9 5%
1944 19 0.000007063 8 11 -16%
1945 14 0.000005277 8 6 14%
1946 16 0.000005007 6 10 -25%
1947 8 0.000002221 8 -100%
1948 14 0.000004055 8 6 14%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 100%
1952 13 0.000003423 7 6 8%
1953 7 0.000001816 7 -100%
1954 12 0.000003015 6 6 0%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 -100%
1959 7 0.000001684 7 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Brownie:

  1. Broward
  2. Browder
  3. Browdy
  4. Brown
  5. Brownell
  6. Brownie (this page)
  7. Browning
  8. Brownlow
  9. Brox
  10. Broxton
  11. Brttany