Meaning not yet researched.
Brantley: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 606 in 2025. Its best rank was #119 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #119 in 2013; #499 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Brantley in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#499 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #119.
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Brantley: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 606 boys in 2025. Peak: #119 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 3,353 (2014).
In 2025, 606 US boys were named Brantley, making it the 499th most common boys’ name of the year, down 20 places from #479 in 2024. That is 37 fewer than the 643 boys named Brantley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #119, reached in 2013. The most boys given the name in a single year was 3,353, in 2014. For comparison, it was #122 in 2015 and #1,946 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brantley in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 5 babies. In all, 32,435 US babies have been given the name, 2.5% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 22,811 babies named Brantley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,818 US boys were named Brantley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,614. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,819 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Brantley ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #114 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Brentley (4,548 babies since 1880), Brantly (864 babies since 1880) and Brantlee (2,593 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Brantlie 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: Brantlie (16).
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 Brantley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 17 | #114 | #20 |
| Mississippi | 15 | #202 | #54 |
| Kentucky | 24 | #227 | #43 |
| Alabama | 23 | #238 | #44 |
| Pennsylvania | 45 | #262 | #101 |
| South Carolina | 21 | #266 | #73 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #308 | #68 |
| Georgia | 39 | #315 | #81 |
| Indiana | 22 | #341 | #60 |
| Virginia | 24 | #344 | #113 |
| Missouri | 18 | #349 | #78 |
| Ohio | 30 | #365 | #72 |
| Michigan | 23 | #377 | #117 |
| Louisiana | 13 | #378 | #64 |
| Florida | 51 | #378 | #116 |
| Idaho | 6 | #382 | #155 |
| Kansas | 9 | #390 | #64 |
| Tennessee | 19 | #411 | #52 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #414 | #84 |
| North Carolina | 26 | #417 | #97 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #470 | #85 |
| Colorado | 11 | #505 | #178 |
| Nevada | 5 | #520 | #335 |
| Maryland | 8 | #577 | #163 |
| Washington | 12 | #582 | #195 |
| Iowa | 5 | #586 | #69 |
| Arizona | 10 | #642 | #277 |
| Illinois | 13 | #686 | #135 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #826 | #125 |
| Texas | 28 | #894 | #210 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,049 | #481 |
| New York | 8 | #1,318 | #349 |
| California | 10 | #1,607 | #490 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,111 | 606 | #499 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,386 | 643 | #479 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,585 | 889 | #365 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,817 | 1,070 | #313 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,675 | 1,303 | #268 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,679 | 1,580 | #233 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,808 | 1,668 | #225 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,484 | 2,107 | #192 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,946 | 2,338 | #168 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,442 | 2,614 | #156 |
| 2015 | 55 | #3,066 | 3,307 | #122 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,440 | 3,353 | #121 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,720 | 3,193 | #119 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,374 | 2,588 | #158 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,088 | 991 | #320 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,003 | 311 | #736 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,123 | 137 | #1,279 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,125 | 99 | #1,594 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,102 | 99 | #1,579 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,948 | 94 | #1,564 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,133 | 94 | #1,514 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,891 | 76 | #1,688 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,265 | 94 | #1,410 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,436 | 67 | #1,723 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,802 | 86 | #1,443 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,812 | 86 | #1,431 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,940 | 72 | #1,546 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,429 | 75 | #1,478 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,040 | 85 | #1,327 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,906 | 66 | #1,517 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,156 | 64 | #1,492 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,750 | 73 | #1,363 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,965 | 67 | #1,421 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,592 | 56 | #1,575 |
| 1991 | — | — | 62 | #1,444 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,918 | 63 | #1,409 |
| 1989 | — | — | 87 | #1,140 |
| 1988 | — | — | 96 | #987 |
| 1987 | — | — | 44 | #1,590 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,830 | 40 | #1,618 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,638 | 36 | #1,701 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,870 | 35 | #1,658 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,148 | 26 | #2,023 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,410 | 38 | #1,599 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,250 | 29 | #1,901 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,846 | 37 | #1,596 |
| 1979 | — | — | 34 | #1,677 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,018 | 36 | #1,572 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,795 | 28 | #1,828 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,266 | 15 | #2,719 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,089 | 30 | #1,662 |
| 1974 | — | — | 31 | #1,587 |
| 1973 | — | — | 24 | #1,822 |
| 1972 | — | — | 24 | #1,827 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,455 | 23 | #1,870 |
| 1970 | — | — | 24 | #1,802 |
| 1969 | — | — | 23 | #1,735 |
| 1968 | — | — | 28 | #1,479 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,016 |
| 1966 | — | — | 13 | #2,229 |
| 1965 | — | — | 21 | #1,724 |
| 1964 | — | — | 15 | #2,128 |
| 1963 | — | — | 18 | #1,907 |
| 1962 | — | — | 16 | #2,043 |
| 1961 | — | — | 16 | #2,074 |
| 1960 | — | — | 19 | #1,865 |
| 1959 | — | — | 16 | #2,042 |
| 1958 | — | — | 24 | #1,600 |
| 1957 | — | — | 19 | #1,841 |
| 1956 | — | — | 9 | #2,815 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,790 |
| 1954 | — | — | 10 | #2,608 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,551 |
| 1952 | — | — | 17 | #1,865 |
| 1951 | — | — | 12 | #2,263 |
| 1950 | — | — | 15 | #1,946 |
| 1949 | — | — | 12 | #2,236 |
| 1948 | — | — | 18 | #1,764 |
| 1947 | — | — | 14 | #2,083 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,557 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,265 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,325 |
| 1943 | — | — | 12 | #2,188 |
| 1942 | — | — | 9 | #2,550 |
| 1941 | — | — | 12 | #2,094 |
| 1940 | — | — | 13 | #1,992 |
| 1939 | — | — | 11 | #2,177 |
| 1938 | — | — | 10 | #2,344 |
| 1937 | — | — | 10 | #2,341 |
| 1936 | — | — | 15 | #1,811 |
| 1935 | — | — | 14 | #1,938 |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,769 |
| 1933 | — | — | 14 | #1,917 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,413 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,498 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,459 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,792 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,225 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,719 |
| 1926 | — | — | 16 | #1,991 |
| 1925 | — | — | 13 | #2,324 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,534 |
| 1923 | — | — | 13 | #2,347 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,571 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,009 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,794 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,141 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,414 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,057 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #2,958 |
| 1915 | — | — | 11 | #2,322 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,682 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,763 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,439 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,100 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,056 |
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).