Brant
Last seen for girls in 1983 at #10,275 · #3,314 for boys in 2025, 35 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1970 · 241 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,569since 1918
Brant over time
Rank among boys' names. Brant has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,314 | 35 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,896 | 28 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,005 | 41 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,100 | 39 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,732 | 46 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,467 | 52 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,339 | 58 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,017 | 72 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,065 | 67 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,863 | 80 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,826 | 81 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,766 | 85 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,733 | 84 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,545 | 103 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,587 | 97 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,639 | 95 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,589 | 101 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,523 | 106 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,359 | 123 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,374 | 117 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,307 | 116 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,034 | 158 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,045 | 149 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,139 | 125 | |
| 2001 | — | #950 | 162 | |
| 2000 | — | #986 | 150 | |
| 1999 | — | #844 | 179 | |
| 1998 | — | #878 | 165 | |
| 1997 | — | #937 | 144 | |
| 1996 | — | #960 | 134 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,090 | 108 | |
| 1994 | — | #917 | 142 | |
| 1993 | — | #874 | 148 | |
| 1992 | — | #936 | 130 | |
| 1991 | — | #963 | 122 | |
| 1990 | — | #773 | 173 | |
| 1989 | — | #772 | 165 | |
| 1988 | — | #695 | 181 | |
| 1987 | — | #726 | 158 | |
| 1986 | — | #667 | 181 | |
| 1985 | — | #696 | 160 | |
| 1984 | — | #657 | 172 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #601 | 203 |
| 1982 | — | #616 | 197 | |
| 1981 | — | #603 | 200 | |
| 1980 | — | #659 | 173 | |
| 1979 | — | #604 | 202 | |
| 1978 | — | #550 | 228 | |
| 1977 | — | #608 | 190 | |
| 1976 | — | #591 | 189 | |
| 1975 | — | #557 | 210 | |
| 1974 | — | #603 | 176 | |
| 1973 | — | #629 | 158 | |
| 1972 | — | #535 | 221 | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #542 | 219 |
| 1970 | — | #518 | 241 | |
| 1969 | — | #606 | 167 | |
| 1968 | — | #622 | 147 | |
| 1967 | — | #662 | 127 | |
| 1966 | — | #698 | 112 | |
| 1965 | — | #808 | 84 | |
| 1964 | — | #831 | 83 | |
| 1963 | — | #740 | 109 | |
| 1962 | — | #822 | 85 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,059 | 54 | |
| 1960 | — | #911 | 69 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,012 | 58 | |
| 1958 | — | #978 | 60 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,090 | 49 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,008 | 55 | |
| 1955 | — | #976 | 59 | |
| 1954 | — | #887 | 69 | |
| 1953 | — | #852 | 71 | |
| 1952 | — | #883 | 63 | |
| 1951 | — | #902 | 61 | |
| 1950 | — | #904 | 57 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,097 | 41 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,460 | 25 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,733 | 19 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,557 | 21 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,574 | 8 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,467 | 9 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,764 | 17 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,386 | 10 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,903 | 14 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,322 | 10 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,712 | 16 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,185 | 11 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,629 | 8 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,951 | 7 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,563 | 9 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,738 | 8 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,766 | 9 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Brant! It came in at #4,179, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1926, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Brant
- 582 spots since 2024 (#3,896 → #3,314)
- 847 spots since 2020 (#2,467 → #3,314)
- 1,488 spots since 2015 (#1,826 → #3,314)
- Biggest jump: 237 spots in 1962 (#1,059 → #822)
- Biggest drop: 190 spots in 1991 (#773 → #963)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1970 at #518 (241 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 25 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 47 yrs · run 1962–1994
- Highest: 1 in 7,201 boys born in 1978 were named Brant (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,802 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #518 in 1970, was only 1 in 7,710 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 21.3% of all boys named Brant (2,034) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,179 (1918) | #4,179 |
| 1920s | 35 | #2,766 (1929) | #3,940 |
| 1930s | 77 | #1,712 (1939) | #2,767 |
| 1940s | 174 | #1,097 (1949) | #1,926 |
| 1950s | 602 | #852 (1953) | #949 |
| 1960s | 1,037 | #606 (1969) | #776 |
| 1970s | 2,034 | #518 (1970) | #574 |
| 1980s | 1,790 | #601 (1983) | #669 |
| 1990s | 1,445 | #773 (1990) | #917 |
| 2000s | 1,307 | #950 (2001) | #1,231 |
| 2010s | 822 | #1,545 (2012) | #1,838 |
| 2020s | 241 | #2,467 (2020) | #3,086 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Brant in 1971
Top girls' names in 1971
Top boys' names in 1971
More about 1971
girls
1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 332,765 of them was named Brant, which outranked 13.7% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,321 names at #8,324; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 8,075 of them was named Brant, which outranked 90.4% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).