girls:
727 births since 1892
#4989 (13th percentile)
boys:
504 births since 1904
#4082 (11th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1892
#6509 (16th percentile)
The name Brownie is the #6,509 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,231 recorded births since 1892. This represents the 15.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,989 (12.7% percentile) for all time with 727 births since 1892. For boys, it ranks #4,082 (10.9% percentile) for all time with 504 births since 1904.
Brownie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1892 (1892 for girls and 1904 for boys). Birth data for Brownie is available in 56 out of the 71 years between 1892 and 1962 (51 years for girls and 46 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Brownie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (59.1% of all recorded births). In 1962, 100.0% of babies named Brownie were girls.
For girls, Brownie reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #582) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 34 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1962.
For boys, Brownie reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #518) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 36 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1959.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brownie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Brownie is pronounced as BROW-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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