Meaning and history
From a surname, Brantley is an Americanized form of the German surname Brändle, which ultimately derives from Old High German brant meaning “fire.”
20062006: 94 births, rank #1,562
2007: 99 births, rank #1,576
2008: 99 births, rank #1,594
2009: 137 births, rank #1,278
2010: 311 births, rank #735
20112011: 991 births, rank #320
2012: 2,588 births, rank #158
2013: 3,193 births, rank #119
2014: 3,353 births, rank #121
2015: 3,307 births, rank #122
20162016: 2,614 births, rank #156
2017: 2,338 births, rank #168
2018: 2,107 births, rank #192
2019: 1,668 births, rank #225
2020: 1,580 births, rank #233
20212021: 1,303 births, rank #268
2022: 1,070 births, rank #313
2023: 889 births, rank #365
2024: 643 births, rank #479
20252025: 606 births, rank #499
Brantley moved from #479 to #499 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2014, with 3,353 births.