Brandt
Brandt was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,673 among boys’ names; 6,157 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,700 Americans named Brandt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 17 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brandt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brandt?
#3,673 among boys’ names, 2025
Brandt fell from #1,463 in 2015 to #3,673 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 60.0 to 17.6 per million.
141 babies in 2007, the peak
Brandt peaked in 2007, when 141 boys were given it, #1,246 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,673 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 36 | #3,276 | 20.9 |
| 2023 | 49 | #2,662 | 28.6 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,219 | 37.2 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,377 | 32.6 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,192 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 91 | #1,724 | 50.7 |
| 2018 | 94 | #1,682 | 51.8 |
| 2017 | 97 | #1,631 | 52.4 |
| 2016 | 85 | #1,790 | 44.8 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 115 | #1,463 | 60.0 |
| 2014 | 128 | #1,345 | 66.6 |
| 2013 | 131 | #1,317 | 69.3 |
| 2012 | 120 | #1,391 | 63.3 |
| 2011 | 118 | #1,405 | 62.1 |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,440 | 59.9 |
| 2009 | 132 | #1,314 | 66.5 |
| 2008 | 129 | #1,336 | 63.2 |
| 2007 | 141 | #1,246 | 67.9 |
| 2006 | 118 | #1,368 | 57.4 |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,361 | 55.1 |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,293 | 57.9 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,197 | 62.3 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,384 | 48.9 |
| 2001 | 105 | #1,263 | 54.0 |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,094 | 65.2 |
| 1999 | 116 | #1,129 | 60.4 |
| 1998 | 135 | #1,005 | 70.6 |
| 1997 | 125 | #1,017 | 66.3 |
| 1996 | 107 | #1,110 | 56.5 |
| 1995 | 109 | #1,078 | 57.3 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,329 | 39.9 |
| 1993 | 107 | #1,077 | 54.6 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,262 | 40.1 |
| 1991 | 99 | #1,090 | 49.0 |
| 1990 | 109 | #1,010 | 53.1 |
| 1989 | 115 | #949 | 57.5 |
| 1988 | 118 | #875 | 61.6 |
| 1987 | 96 | #961 | 51.4 |
| 1986 | 97 | #925 | 52.7 |
| 1985 | 93 | #946 | 50.3 |
| 1984 | 101 | #874 | 56.0 |
| 1983 | 99 | #884 | 55.2 |
| 1982 | 102 | #884 | 56.2 |
| 1981 | 72 | #1,073 | 40.2 |
| 1980 | 81 | #1,004 | 45.4 |
| 1979 | 71 | #1,046 | 41.2 |
| 1978 | 86 | #932 | 52.4 |
| 1977 | 69 | #1,038 | 42.0 |
| 1976 | 73 | #973 | 46.5 |
| 1975 | 63 | #1,043 | 40.3 |
| 1974 | 78 | #919 | 49.6 |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,056 | 37.9 |
| 1972 | 61 | #1,035 | 37.6 |
| 1971 | 70 | #976 | 39.6 |
| 1970 | 85 | #876 | 45.7 |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,113 | 27.4 |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,165 | 24.2 |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,031 | 28.7 |
| 1966 | 51 | #1,016 | 28.6 |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,226 | 21.0 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,287 | 18.6 |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,081 | 24.6 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,315 | 16.9 |
| 1961 | 22 | #1,737 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 26 | #1,584 | 12.2 |
| 1959 | 24 | #1,625 | 11.2 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,598 | 11.3 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,720 | 10.2 |
| 1956 | 22 | #1,681 | 10.4 |
| 1955 | 26 | #1,506 | 12.6 |
| 1954 | 18 | #1,836 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 33 | #1,307 | 16.7 |
| 1952 | 23 | #1,584 | 11.8 |
| 1951 | 21 | #1,647 | 11.2 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,822 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,628 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,803 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,081 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,579 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,584 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,142 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,261 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,621 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,898 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,689 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,630 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,343 | 9.0 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,891 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,549 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,727 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,059 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,013 | 7.4 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,425 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,428 | 4.4 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,891 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brandt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brandt has been given almost only to boys: 38 girls in 96 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brandt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brandt, and how old are they?
5,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 6,157 Americans ever recorded as Brandt. The median Brandt alive today is 29 years old; half are between 17 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 5,245 people named Brandt (40 women and girls, 5,205 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,535 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 22 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 303 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 918 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,530 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,890 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,030 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Brandt born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,631 | 0.9× |
Where Brandt is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brandt is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1915 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Brandt with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brandt
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Brandt and names like it
- Compare Brandt and BroderickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sBrandt peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brandt since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Brandt.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Brandt alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.