Brownie
Recorded 1892–1962 · United States
Brownie was most popular in 1923, when 53 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,913 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,231 people named Brownie.
Brownie over time
How old is the name Brownie?
Brownie first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1892, which makes it about 133 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 56 of the 134 years since. It was last recorded in 1962.
How many people are named Brownie?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,231 American births named Brownie between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 163 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Brownie in 2025?
Brownie was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Brownie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Brownie is a unisex name — 59.1% of the 1,231 Americans given it were girls and 40.9% were boys. It changed hands: since 1934 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Brownie?
Roughly 163 Americans named Brownie are alive today — 13% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 82 years old, and half are between 75 and 89.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Brownie is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org