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Brantly

The boy's name Brantly has been in the national records since 1972, with 864 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 850 Brantlys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Brantly boys named Brantly

By the numbers

Total US births
864
Estimated living today
850
Median age today
13
Peak year
2013
Best rank
1,540th
Rank in 2025
12,008th
First recorded
1972
Girls / boys
5 / 859

How old the living Brantlys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 864 babies given the name since 1972, about 850 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Brantly is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Brantly is most concentrated in Florida (4.0×), Texas (2.9×), Ohio (2.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2013

The most popular boys’ names the year Brantly peaked:

All the names of 2013

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Brantly against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.