Meaning not yet researched.
Brantly: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,541 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,541 in 2013; #12,311 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Brantly in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,311 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #1,541.
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Brantly: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,541 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 103 (2013).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Brantly, making it the 12,311th most common boys’ name of the year, up 297 places from #12,608 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 5 boys named Brantly in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,541, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 103. For comparison, it was #2,194 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Brantly in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 864 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 517 babies named Brantly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 162 US boys were named Brantly; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Brantley (32,435 babies since 1880), Brant (9,579 babies since 1880), Brently (1,442 babies since 1880) and Brantlee (2,593 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Brantly 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 | — | — | 5 | #12,311 |
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #12,608 |
| 2023 | — | — | 7 | #9,891 |
| 2022 | — | — | 11 | #7,333 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #6,761 |
| 2020 | — | — | 18 | #5,065 |
| 2019 | — | — | 25 | #4,128 |
| 2018 | — | — | 21 | #4,620 |
| 2017 | — | — | 29 | #3,689 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,695 |
| 2015 | — | — | 62 | #2,194 |
| 2014 | — | — | 82 | #1,815 |
| 2013 | — | — | 103 | #1,541 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,332 | 91 | #1,676 |
| 2011 | — | — | 53 | #2,379 |
| 2010 | — | — | 17 | #5,279 |
| 2009 | — | — | 12 | #6,860 |
| 2008 | — | — | 13 | #6,444 |
| 2007 | — | — | 19 | #4,830 |
| 2006 | — | — | 10 | #7,496 |
| 2005 | — | — | 13 | #5,915 |
| 2004 | — | — | 15 | #5,281 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,311 |
| 2002 | — | — | 15 | #4,938 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,068 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,810 |
| 1999 | — | — | 11 | #5,702 |
| 1998 | — | — | 11 | #5,510 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,249 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,221 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #4,827 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,053 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,731 |
| 1992 | — | — | 16 | #3,771 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,795 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #3,995 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,467 |
| 1988 | — | — | 16 | #3,222 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,610 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,071 |
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).