Brant
Brant was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,320 among boys’ names; 9,579 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,590 Americans named Brant and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 25 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brant by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brant?
#3,320 among boys’ names, 2025
Brant fell from #1,829 in 2015 to #3,320 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 42.3 to 20.5 per million.
241 babies in 1970, the peak
Brant peaked in 1970, when 241 boys were given it, #519 among boys’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,320 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 28 | #3,900 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,011 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,107 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,734 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 52 | #2,471 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,341 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,016 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,068 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 80 | #1,864 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #1,829 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 85 | #1,767 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 84 | #1,735 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 103 | #1,546 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 97 | #1,587 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 95 | #1,642 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 101 | #1,589 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,524 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 123 | #1,360 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 117 | #1,374 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,307 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 158 | #1,033 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 149 | #1,044 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 125 | #1,140 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 162 | #949 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 150 | #985 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 179 | #842 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 165 | #879 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 144 | #935 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 134 | #958 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 108 | #1,088 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 142 | #914 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 148 | #873 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 130 | #933 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 122 | #958 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 173 | #769 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 165 | #770 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 181 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 158 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 181 | #667 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 160 | #696 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 172 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 203 | #602 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 197 | #616 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 200 | #603 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 173 | #659 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 202 | #605 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 228 | #550 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 190 | #608 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 189 | #592 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 210 | #558 | 0.13 |
| 1974 | 176 | #604 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 158 | #629 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 221 | #536 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 219 | #544 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 241 | #519 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 167 | #607 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 147 | #622 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 127 | #663 | 0.07 |
| 1966 | 112 | #698 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 84 | #808 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 83 | #831 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 109 | #740 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 85 | #821 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 54 | #1,058 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 69 | #911 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 58 | #1,011 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 60 | #980 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,090 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,008 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 59 | #976 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 69 | #887 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 71 | #851 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 63 | #883 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 61 | #901 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 57 | #905 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 41 | #1,096 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,462 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 19 | #1,738 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 21 | #1,558 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,585 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,486 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,773 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,398 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,917 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,342 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,725 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,201 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,212 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,660 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #2,993 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,580 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,763 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,410 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,634 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,789 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,222 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,826 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,429 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,379 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,370 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,247 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brant a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brant has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 102 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brant: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brant, and how old are they?
8,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 9,579 Americans ever recorded as Brant. The median Brant alive today is 40 years old; half are between 25 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 8,396 people named Brant (21 women and girls, 8,375 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,618 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 36 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 763 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,530 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,450 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 762 |
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 Brant born?
The states with the most babies named Brant are Texas, California and Ohio, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 743 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 604 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 522 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 395 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 344 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 334 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 312 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 239 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 228 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 193 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Brant is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brant is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1918 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 Brant with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 9,866 babies since 1880, Brant is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 35 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Brant
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 Brant and names like it
- Compare Brant and BrayantBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBrant peaked in 1970.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brant since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Brant.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Brant alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.