Meaning not yet researched.
Brant: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #519 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #519 in 1970; #3,321 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brant in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,321 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #519.
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Brant: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #519 in 1970 · most boys in one year: 241 (1970).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Brant, making it the 3,321st most common boys’ name of the year, up 581 places from #3,902 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 28 boys named Brant in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #519, reached in 1970. That year also had the most boys given the name: 241. For comparison, it was #1,829 in 2015 and #906 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brant in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 9,579 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,039 babies named Brant.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 518 US boys were named Brant; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 80. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brent (140,366 babies since 1880), Brandt (6,157 babies since 1880) and Brantly (864 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brayant and Braynt are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Brayant (287), Braynt (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Brant in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 35 | #3,321 |
| 2024 | — | — | 28 | #3,902 |
| 2023 | — | — | 41 | #3,013 |
| 2022 | — | — | 39 | #3,109 |
| 2021 | — | — | 46 | #2,735 |
| 2020 | — | — | 52 | #2,472 |
| 2019 | — | — | 58 | #2,342 |
| 2018 | — | — | 72 | #2,017 |
| 2017 | — | — | 67 | #2,068 |
| 2016 | — | — | 80 | #1,864 |
| 2015 | — | — | 81 | #1,829 |
| 2014 | — | — | 85 | #1,767 |
| 2013 | — | — | 84 | #1,736 |
| 2012 | — | — | 103 | #1,546 |
| 2011 | — | — | 97 | #1,587 |
| 2010 | — | — | 95 | #1,642 |
| 2009 | — | — | 101 | #1,590 |
| 2008 | — | — | 106 | #1,524 |
| 2007 | — | — | 123 | #1,360 |
| 2006 | — | — | 117 | #1,374 |
| 2005 | — | — | 116 | #1,308 |
| 2004 | — | — | 158 | #1,034 |
| 2003 | — | — | 149 | #1,045 |
| 2002 | — | — | 125 | #1,141 |
| 2001 | — | — | 162 | #950 |
| 2000 | — | — | 150 | #987 |
| 1999 | — | — | 179 | #844 |
| 1998 | — | — | 165 | #880 |
| 1997 | — | — | 144 | #937 |
| 1996 | — | — | 134 | #960 |
| 1995 | — | — | 108 | #1,091 |
| 1994 | — | — | 142 | #917 |
| 1993 | — | — | 148 | #875 |
| 1992 | — | — | 130 | #936 |
| 1991 | — | — | 122 | #963 |
| 1990 | — | — | 173 | #773 |
| 1989 | — | — | 165 | #773 |
| 1988 | — | — | 181 | #695 |
| 1987 | — | — | 158 | #726 |
| 1986 | — | — | 181 | #667 |
| 1985 | — | — | 160 | #696 |
| 1984 | — | — | 172 | #657 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,448 | 203 | #602 |
| 1982 | — | — | 197 | #616 |
| 1981 | — | — | 200 | #603 |
| 1980 | — | — | 173 | #659 |
| 1979 | — | — | 202 | #605 |
| 1978 | — | — | 228 | #550 |
| 1977 | — | — | 190 | #608 |
| 1976 | — | — | 189 | #592 |
| 1975 | — | — | 210 | #558 |
| 1974 | — | — | 176 | #604 |
| 1973 | — | — | 158 | #629 |
| 1972 | — | — | 221 | #536 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,453 | 219 | #544 |
| 1970 | — | — | 241 | #519 |
| 1969 | — | — | 167 | #607 |
| 1968 | — | — | 147 | #622 |
| 1967 | — | — | 127 | #663 |
| 1966 | — | — | 112 | #698 |
| 1965 | — | — | 84 | #808 |
| 1964 | — | — | 83 | #831 |
| 1963 | — | — | 109 | #740 |
| 1962 | — | — | 85 | #822 |
| 1961 | — | — | 54 | #1,059 |
| 1960 | — | — | 69 | #912 |
| 1959 | — | — | 58 | #1,012 |
| 1958 | — | — | 60 | #981 |
| 1957 | — | — | 49 | #1,091 |
| 1956 | — | — | 55 | #1,009 |
| 1955 | — | — | 59 | #977 |
| 1954 | — | — | 69 | #888 |
| 1953 | — | — | 71 | #852 |
| 1952 | — | — | 63 | #884 |
| 1951 | — | — | 61 | #902 |
| 1950 | — | — | 57 | #906 |
| 1949 | — | — | 41 | #1,097 |
| 1948 | — | — | 25 | #1,463 |
| 1947 | — | — | 19 | #1,739 |
| 1946 | — | — | 21 | #1,559 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,586 |
| 1944 | — | — | 9 | #2,487 |
| 1943 | — | — | 17 | #1,774 |
| 1942 | — | — | 10 | #2,399 |
| 1941 | — | — | 14 | #1,917 |
| 1940 | — | — | 10 | #2,342 |
| 1939 | — | — | 16 | #1,725 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,201 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,213 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,661 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #2,993 |
| 1934 | — | — | 9 | #2,580 |
| 1933 | — | — | 8 | #2,764 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,412 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,636 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,791 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,224 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,828 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,431 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,381 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,372 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,248 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).