girls:
5 births since 2012
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
849 births since 1972
#3738 (18th percentile)
overall:
854 births since 1972
#6885 (11th percentile)
The name Brantly is the #6,885 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 854 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 11.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,738 (18.4% percentile) for all time with 849 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2012.
Brantly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for boys and 2012 for girls). Birth data for Brantly is available in 38 out of the 52 years between 1972 and 2023 (38 years for boys and 1 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 Brantly has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Brantly reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 11.0% percentile (ranked #790) with 51 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 51 births per million (ranked 11.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Brantly ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 7.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Brantly reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #937) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Brantly".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Brantly is pronounced as BRAN-tlee, which has 2 syllables.
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