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 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 27,626 of them was named Brant, which outranked 85.5% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,049Mckinley68
- #2,049Tamim68
- #2,049Yadier68
- #2,065Brant67
- #2,065Abiel67
- #2,065Aharon67
- #2,065Azlan67
- #2,091Abbas66
- #2,091Arlen66
- #2,091Benji66
Tied with 25 names at #2,065; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.