Brantly
Brantly was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,307 among boys’ names; 864 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Brantly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Brantly?
#12,307 among boys’ names, 2025
Brantly fell from #2,194 in 2015 to #12,307 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 32.3 to 2.9 per million.
103 babies in 2013, the peak
Brantly peaked in 2013, when 103 boys were given it, #1,541 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,307 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,603 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,886 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,328 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,756 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,061 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,124 | 13.9 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,616 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,685 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,694 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,194 | 32.3 |
| 2014 | 82 | #1,815 | 42.7 |
| 2013 | 103 | #1,541 | 54.5 |
| 2012 | 91 | #1,675 | 48.0 |
| 2011 | 53 | #2,378 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,276 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,855 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,439 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,828 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,491 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 13 | #5,909 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,276 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,304 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 15 | #4,931 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,061 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,803 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,696 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,503 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,243 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,214 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,821 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,047 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,725 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,764 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,788 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #3,989 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,461 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,217 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,603 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,069 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Brantly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Brantly has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 40 years of records.
Girls and boys named Brantly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Brantly, and how old are they?
An estimated 851 Americans named Brantly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 11 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,013 people named Brantly (42 women and girls, 971 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 801 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Brantly?
Brantly is a less common spelling of Brantley: SSA has recorded 864 Brantly and 32,435 Brantley since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 35,892 babies since 1880, Brantly is the third most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 657 babies (<1%), again the third 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 Brantly
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 Brantly and names like it
- Compare Brantly and BrantleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBrantly peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Brantly since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Brantly.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Brantly alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.