Fun Facts About the Name Brantlee
- More than 2 thousand babies named Brantlee: U.S. records list 2,591 babies given the name Brantlee from 1880 through 2025. Even 230 girls received the name Brantlee - about 1 girl for every 10 boys.
What Does the Name Brantlee Mean?
Brantlee is a respelled form of the English name Brantley, which comes from an Old English place name meaning "steep woodland clearing" or "clearing on a steep slope." The second element is Old English lēah, meaning "wood," "glade," or "clearing," a very common ending in English place names. The first element is generally identified as Old English brant ("steep," "high"), though some explanations connect it instead to a word for burnt land, so the precise sense of the first part is not fully settled.
Brantlee Name History & Origins
Brantley began as an English surname of the habitational type, meaning that a family took its name from a place called Brantley. Such place names combine brant and lēah, and the surname is found in England well before it came into use as a first name.
Like many English surnames, Brantley later moved into given-name use in the English-speaking world, especially in the United States. Brantlee is a spelling variant rather than a separate name: the ending -lee reflects both the modern rendering of lēah as "lee" and a common American pattern of respelling surname-names with -ee, as in Ashlee or Kaylee. The two spellings are pronounced the same.
How Popular is the Name Brantlee?
Brantlee recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2015. Its best rank was #778 in 2015.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | #13,724 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #9,802 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2021 | #12,421 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2019 | #8,682 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #8,232 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2017 | #10,083 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2016 | #7,312 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2015 | #7,336 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2014 | #5,647 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2013 | #5,677 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2012 | #5,929 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2011 | #7,860 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2010 | #9,887 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2009 | #12,627 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2008 | #17,977 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2006 | #17,560 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2001 | #13,770 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2000 | #15,395 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1973 | #8,554 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1971 | #8,453 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1970 | #6,432 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,139 | 38 | 0.0022% |
| 2024 | #2,555 | 52 | 0.0030% |
| 2023 | #2,391 | 57 | 0.0033% |
| 2022 | #1,951 | 79 | 0.0045% |
| 2021 | #1,489 | 120 | 0.0069% |
| 2020 | #1,374 | 128 | 0.0074% |
| 2019 | #1,303 | 141 | 0.0079% |
| 2018 | #1,045 | 194 | 0.0107% |
| 2017 | #1,051 | 190 | 0.0103% |
| 2016 | #954 | 217 | 0.0114% |
| 2015 | #778 | 304 | 0.0159% |
| 2014 | #825 | 274 | 0.0143% |
| 2013 | #881 | 236 | 0.0125% |
| 2012 | #1,035 | 187 | 0.0099% |
| 2011 | #2,080 | 64 | 0.0034% |
| 2010 | #3,723 | 28 | 0.0015% |
| 2009 | #6,478 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2008 | #7,769 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2007 | #6,310 | 13 | 0.0006% |
| 2006 | #7,495 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2004 | #10,125 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Brantlee Shapes Your Personality and Life?
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