Brantlee
Brantlee was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,138 among boys’ names; 2,593 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,570 Americans named Brantlee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brantlee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Brantlee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Brantlee is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Rare modern spelling of Brantley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Brantlee?
#3,138 among boys’ names, 2025
Brantlee fell from #778 in 2015 to #3,138 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.16 to 0.02 per 1,000.
320 babies in 2015, the peak
Brantlee peaked in 2015, when 320 babies were given it (304 boys, #778 among boys’ names). The 38 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,138 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 52 | #2,566 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,391 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 79 | #1,951 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 120 | #1,490 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 128 | #1,374 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 142 | #1,301 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 194 | #1,045 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 191 | #1,049 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 217 | #954 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 304 | #778 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 274 | #826 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 236 | #882 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 187 | #1,035 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,079 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,722 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,475 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,765 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,309 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,490 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,119 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brantlee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,593 Americans recorded as Brantlee, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 38 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Brantlee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brantlee, and how old are they?
2,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,593 Americans ever recorded as Brantlee. The median Brantlee alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,796 people named Brantlee (228 women and girls, 1,568 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 404 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,150 |
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 Brantlee born?
The states with the most babies named Brantlee are Ohio, Texas and Kentucky, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 197 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Texas | 137 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Kentucky | 136 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Indiana | 121 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Alabama | 104 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Tennessee | 102 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 94 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 86 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 80 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 69 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Brantlee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Brantlee is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1970 it was given 3.5 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 Brantlee 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 35,892 babies since 1880, Brantlee is the second most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 657 babies (5.8%), again the second 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 Brantlee
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 Brantlee and names like it
- Compare Brantlee and BrantleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrantlee peaked in 2015.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brantlee since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Brantlee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Brantlee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brantlee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.