Brandy is the English word for the distilled wine brandy — Dutch brandewijn ("burnt wine"). Brandy Norwood (born 1979) — American singer, songwriter, and actress; her 1998 Have You Ever topped the Billboard Hot 100 and her duet with Monica The Boy Is Mine (1998) was the best-selling single by a duo of women in US chart history at the time. Her 1997 made-for-TV Disney Cinderella — opposite Whitney Houston as her fairy godmother — drew 60 million American viewers and is considered a landmark in racial representation in American television (the first Black Disney princess on screen).
Subject of countless 1990s R&B retrospectives.
Brandy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Brandy reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.