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Brant

#3,320 in 2025Boys' name

English surname transferred into given-name use

Brant has been given to 9,579 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #3,320 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 241 recorded.

Babies named Brant, 2025

1 in 94,700

Brant over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Brant: meaning, origin, and history

English surname transferred into given-name use

English surname transfer

What Brant means

Brant is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Brant is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɹænt/ for Brant.

The naming story behind Brant

Brant is a given name adopted from English surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,569 boys were recorded with the name Brant between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 241 in 1970; its best national rank was #519 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,471 in 2020 to #3,320 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,829 in 2015 to #3,320 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Brant between 1971 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1971; its best national rank was #8,451 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Brant?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,320
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Brant sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Brant. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Brants were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Brant was born before 1984 — so the typical Brant is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
21.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,278
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 21.3% of all recorded uses (2,034).

Is Brant rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+580
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−849
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,491
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.43×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.5%
Peak was 1970 (241)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#519
1970

Spellings of Brant

Brant is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 35.3% against Brant's 0.29%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Brant is used

Across 2016–2025, Brant was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 80,078 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2Michigan1 in 33,333
  3. 3Ohio1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Brant around the world

Where Brant ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–1998
    #2,901
    in 1998
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,155
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1955–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Brant

People whose public names include Brant, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Brant in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Brant. Linked forms have their own page here.

Brent

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Brant by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,320
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 849
Best rank ever
#519
1970
Peak year
1970
241 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,569
Count in 2025
35

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,451
1971
Peak year
1971
5 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1983
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Brant

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BradlyBrandtBrayanBradynBransonBraidenBraylenBraedenBraydonBrainBrandanBraulioBrandyBraylonBrandynBrannonBrandoBradonBradyBradenBraedonBrayantBradleeBranden

Names with a curve like Brant

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Brant, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RodrickBradlyErinTyronJedHeribertoErichWilfredoGarrickCedrickDericJacques

Sibling names for Brant

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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