Brant

At the 2020 census, 9,646 Americans bore the surname Brant — 3,598th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 31,000.

By the numbers

People: 9,646
Rank: 3,598th
How common: 1 in 31,000
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

English, German, Jewish and Dutch surname, variant of Brand.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Brant described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.5%
Black, not Hispanic 6.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Brant

Sebastian Brant (1458–1521)German humanist and satirist
Joseph Brant (1742–1807)Mohawk leader
Mike Brant (1947–1975)Israeli-born French singer-songwriter
Isabella Brant (1591–1626)First wife of painter Peter Paul Rubens
Henry Brant (1913–2008)American composer

People named Brant with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Brant

Also a first name

Brant has been given to 9,579 American babies as a first name since 1918, peaking in 1970. 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.