Brantley

20,397 people in the United States were counted with the surname Brantley in the 2020 census, making it the 1,719th most common in the country. That is about one person in 14,700.

By the numbers

People: 20,397
Rank: 1,719th
How common: 1 in 14,700
Per 100,000: 6.8

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Anglicized from gsw Brändle, Brändli, "firebrand.".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 56.9%
Black, not Hispanic 34.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Brantley

Betsy Brantley (born 1955)American actress
Mark Brantley (born 1969)Premier of Nevis

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

Surnames like Brantley

Also a first name

Brantley has been given to 32,435 American babies as a first name since 1893, peaking in 2014. 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.