# Brant (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/brant/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 9,579 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 9,569 / 10 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 5 | 8,453 |
| 1983 | 5 | 10,448 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 97 | 1,587 |
| 2012 | 103 | 1,546 |
| 2013 | 84 | 1,736 |
| 2014 | 85 | 1,767 |
| 2015 | 81 | 1,829 |
| 2016 | 80 | 1,864 |
| 2017 | 67 | 2,068 |
| 2018 | 72 | 2,017 |
| 2019 | 58 | 2,342 |
| 2020 | 52 | 2,472 |
| 2021 | 46 | 2,735 |
| 2022 | 39 | 3,109 |
| 2023 | 41 | 3,013 |
| 2024 | 28 | 3,902 |
| 2025 | 35 | 3,321 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 2,901 |

## People named Brant

- Brant Daugherty, American actor
- Brant Bjork, American rock musician
- Brant Parker, cartoonist (1920–2007)
- Michael Shermer, American science writer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.