Brantley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: An American surname from German
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɹæntɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brantley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 16K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 395 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈73,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
An American surname from German.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Brantley counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Brantley | 5 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Brantley | 1 |
| US United States | — | 21,395 | 1 in 16K | 22K | Brantley | 395 |
| GH Ghana | #275 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Brantley | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Brantley | 48 |
| IE Ireland | #448 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Brantley | 6 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 12 | 1 in 4.5K | 12 | — | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Gordon Brantleyb. 1860USAmerican politician (1860-1934)
- Bobby Brantleyb. 1948USAmerican politician
- Ben Brantleyb. 1954USAmerican journalist
- Betsy Brantleyb. 1955USAmerican actress
- Mickey Brantleyb. 1961USAmerican baseball player and coach
- Jeff Brantleyb. 1963USAmerican baseball player
- Larry Brantleyb. 1966USAmerican stand-up comedian
- Mark Brantleyb. 1969KNPremier of Nevis
- Michael Brantleyb. 1987USAmerican baseball player
- Jarrell Brantleyb. 1996USAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 21K | #1,684 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 20K | #1,719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 20K | #1,646 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 12 | #170 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Brantley mean, and where does it come from?
- An American surname from German. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Brantley have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Brantley in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brantley.
- How common is the name Brantley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,395 people named Brantley in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Brantley compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Brantley is the 275th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Brantley?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɹæntɫi/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brantleyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brantley” — the 275th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.