Brantly
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 29 babies a year in the US.
Brantly by the numbers
Brantly was given to 29 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 103 babies in 2013, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Brantly
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Brantly. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Brantleyfire brand; a form of Brant2,347 in the US (2017)
- Brentlymeadow of bent grass; a modern respelling of Bently or Bentley54 in the US (2017)
- Brandtly6 in the US (2017)
- Brentleyburnt meadow; a modern respelling of Brantley289 in the US (2017)
- Brantleefire brand; a modern respelling of Brantley197 in the US (2017)
- Bentlybent grass meadow; a form of Bentley89 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Brantly
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