Brant

Where Brant comes from

Brant hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #4,179 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Peak, #518
    241 babies named Brant — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1973
    Brant Bjork born
    American rock musician
  4. 1985
    Brant Daugherty born
    American actor
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,090.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Brant Daugherty · American actor, born 1985
  • Brant Bjork · American rock musician, born 1973
  • Brant Parker · cartoonist, 1920–2007
  • Brant Weidner · American basketball player, born 1960
  • Brant Little · Canadian middle-distance runner, 1906–1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.