Brant
Brant is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 519th, in 1970.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 280.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1970241 births
- Best rank
- #519in 1970
- Since 1918
- 9,535people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,535 boys have been named Brant in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 241 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1984, and the 1970s alone account for 21%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Brant | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 35 | |
| 1930s | 77 | |
| 1940s | 174 | |
| 1950s | 602 | |
| 1960s | 1,037 | |
| 1970s | 2,035 | |
| 1980s | 1,790 | |
| 1990s | 1,445 | |
| 2000s | 1,307 | |
| 2010s | 822 | |
| 2020s | 206 |
In 1970, its biggest year
Brant was the 519th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1970 were Michael, James, David, John and Robert. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Brant
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dawaynepeak 1977
- Sedricpeak 1982
- Demetriospeak 1974
- Ronellpeak 1976
- Jobypeak 1977
- Torrencepeak 1973
- Bryanpeak 1985
- Ronnellpeak 1993
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.