Brandt
At the 2020 census, 35,211 Americans bore the surname Brandt — 980th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,489.
By the numbers
- People
- 35,211
- Rank
- 980th
- How common
- 1 in 8,489
- Per 100,000
- 11.8
Where the name comes from
Origin German
German and gsw surname for someone who lived in an area cleared by fire, from Brandt. Compare Brand.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Brandt described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Brandt
- Willy Brandt (1913–1992)German politician (SPD), chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Julian Brandt (born 1996)German association football player
- Karl Brandt (1904–1948)German Nazi SS officer and physician, executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity
- Lesley-Ann Brandt (born 1981)South African-American actress
- Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802–1879)German naturalist
- Betsy Brandt (born 1973)American actress
- Georg Brandt (1694–1768)Swedish chemist and mineralogist
- Marianne Brandt (1893–1983)German artist and designer
People named Brandt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Brandt
Also a first name
Brandt has been given to 6,157 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 2007. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.