How Many People Are Named Brant?

8,632

people named Brant are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 39,595 people in the US has this name

Based on 9,579 babies named Brant in Social Security records from 1918 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,697

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,052

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Peak Year

1970

241 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: BRANT
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

From a surname which was derived from the Old Norse name BRANDR.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Brant in English. Counting Brant and these spellings together, about 14,353 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.1%
Male
99.9%

Almost all of the babies given the name Brant (99.9%) were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Brant alive today is about 38 years old, and 56% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 24 and 51 in 2025.

Under 30 2,948
34.2%
30 to 59 4,796
55.6%
60 and over 888
10.3%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Brant first appears in the records in 1918 and was given most often in 1970, to 241 babies. In 2025, 35 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1918 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Brant has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #519, in 1970. In 2025 it ranked #3,320.

Boys
Rank in 2025#3,320
Best rank#519 (1970)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#573 in the 1970s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Brant alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Brant were born in Texas than in any other state: about 698 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Brant was given 3.4 times as often in Louisiana, 3.2 times in Iowa and 2.7 times in Indiana.

Texas 698
California 526
Ohio 488
Illinois 366
Indiana 326
Louisiana 320
Pennsylvania 292
Michigan 220
Florida 213
Iowa 182
Missouri 174
New York 122
Minnesota 122
Utah 107
Oklahoma 102
Wisconsin 93
Washington 84
Kansas 74
Georgia 50
Colorado 48
New Jersey 39
Tennessee 33
Virginia 31
Nebraska 28
North Carolina 26
Alabama 24
Oregon 19
Arkansas 17
Massachusetts 15
Arizona 14
Kentucky 13
Idaho 6
Montana 6
New Mexico 5
North Dakota 5
Maryland 5
Connecticut 4

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