Brantley

What Brantley means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Brantley yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #122 in 2015, #499 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Brantley?

US: Falling: down from #122 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 3,353 boys got the name (#121 that year). First in the US records in 1893.

How common

• About 1 in 2,819 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WV (2.76 per 1,000 boys), MS (1.38 per 1,000 boys), KY (1.17 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Brantley is #499 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.7% of US babies named Brantley were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the UK pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Brentley75 US
• Brantlee38 US
• Brently19 US
• Brentlee17 US
• Brantly5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Brantley

Boys

• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Callen#516Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #516 vs #2,952 in 2025
• Emmitt#769Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Remington#307“settlement by the boundary stream”^*
• Flynn#827Editor’s note Down from #695 in 2015 to #827 in 2025 in the US
• Reid#293Editor’s note Steady in the US: #278 in 2015 and #293 in 2025

For a sister

• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025
• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*
• Scarlett#32Editor’s note Down from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 in the US
• Collins#241“descendant of Coileán”^*
• Everleigh#194“wild boar + woodland clearing”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Brantley’s. Rank is US 2025.