girls:
10 births since 1971
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
9.5k births since 1918
#1207 (74th percentile)
overall:
9.5k births since 1918
#2757 (64th percentile)
The name Brant is the #2,757 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,518 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 64.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,207 (73.7% percentile) for all time with 9,508 births since 1918. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1971.
Brant first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for boys and 1971 for girls). Birth data for Brant is available in 100 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (100 years for boys and 2 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 Brant has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brant reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 32.1% percentile (ranked #454) with 127 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 133 births per million (ranked 31.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2001, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brant ranks #875 for boys (4.0% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 16.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brant reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #769) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1983.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brant".
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