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Brant

Pronunciation
[Brant]
Gender
Male
Meaning
Proud: Variant Of Brand. Mohawk Indian Joseph Brant Was A Renowned Strategist Who Fought For The British During The American Revolution: And A Devout Scholar Who Translated Christian Religious Works Into His Native Indian Tongue.
Origin
English

Brant Popularity Snapshot

Across the entire US Social Security Administration record (1880–2024), 9,535 baby boys have been named Brant. The name peaked in 1970 with 241 US births that year (rank #519). In 2024, ranked #3891 nationally — 3,372 places below its 1970 peak.

Top States for Brant

Based on 1910–2024 US SSA state-level records, the three states with the most Brant births are: Texas (744), California (604), Ohio (522).

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5-Letter Names Starting with B

Names with Brant's exact length and starting letter: Badal, Bader, Badia, Badra, Badru.

Quick Facts About Brant

5,642
English baby names in our dictionary
3,391
English male names
209
5-letter B-names in our dictionary
783
B-male names total
2000–2001
years of US SSA records (2 total)
312
total US births named Brant (all years)

US Popularity History (2000–2001)

📈 Rising: Brant climbed 37 places in the US boys ranking over the last 1 years (#987 in 2000 → #950 in 2001).

Annual US births named Brant by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2001 with 162 boys named Brant (boy rank #950 that year).

Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.

Where in the US Is Brant Most Popular?

Average boy-name rank within each state across 2009–2018 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Brant the strongest states are Iowa, Louisiana, Ohio.

Strongest boys-name states

# State Avg rank Births
1 Iowa #503 16
2 Louisiana #674 47
3 Ohio #758 53
4 Missouri #805 15
5 Indiana #819 23

Weakest boys-name states

# State Avg rank Births
1 Indiana #819 23
2 Missouri #805 15
3 Ohio #758 53
4 Louisiana #674 47
5 Iowa #503 16

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2009–2018. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Brant in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.

Variant Forms

NameMeaningGenderOrigin
Brantley Proud Male English

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Compare Brant to Other Popular Names

Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Brant against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).

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Brant vs Elijah 153,351 births since 2014
Brant vs Benjamin 147,449 births since 2014
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