girls:
38 births since 1980
#5678 (1st percentile)
boys:
6.1k births since 1915
#1514 (67th percentile)
overall:
6.1k births since 1915
#3473 (55th percentile)
The name Brandt is the #3,473 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,091 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 55.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,514 (67.0% percentile) for all time with 6,053 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,678 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 1980.
Brandt first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1980 for girls). Birth data for Brandt is available in 94 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (94 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Brandt has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brandt reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 16.2% percentile (ranked #666) with 67 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 67 births per million (ranked 16.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brandt ranks #867 for boys (4.8% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 40.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brandt reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #772) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brandt".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Brandt. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.5% confident that Brandt is pronounced as brant, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is brandt, at 12.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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