The Brantley surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 21,395 people carried this name — #1,684 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 13,800 people counted. That is up 7% from 19,953 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Brantley surname
An American surname from German.
Anglicized from Alemannic German Brändle, Brändli, "firebrand."
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Brantley» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In the first U.S. census, 1790
40 families named Brantley, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.
Each family is counted by its head. About 207 people lived in those households, 5.2 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 2 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.
Families, by state
U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 231 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.
In print
Brantley in American newspapers,
1873–1894.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 31,172 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Brantley in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1950s.
491 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Brantley. The most, 203, date from the 1920s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Queensland, at 1.9 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Brantley.
Who carried it
People named Brantley,
with a public archive behind them.
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William F. Brantley 1830–1870 · military personnel -
Theodore M. Brantley 1851–1922 · judge -
William Gordon Brantley 1860–1934 · lawyer -
Florence W. Brantley 1865–1935 · journalist -
William Brantley Aycock 1915–2015 · military personnel -
John David Brantley 1839–1907
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Brantley,
in the records of the United States.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States939 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 654
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 221
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 20
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 17
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 10
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 8
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 8
- U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
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Example: U.S. war memorial War record Leroy BrantleyBorn 1948; from Charleston, South Carolina. U.S. Marine Corps, rifleman; killed in action 1969 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam. Buried at Beaufort National Cemetery, South Carolina.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record John W. BrantleyBorn 1914 in South Carolina. Enlisted 1943 at Fort Jackson Columbia; policeman. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1996, buried at Greenlawn Memorial Park & Funeral Home, South Carolina.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Annie BrantleyArrived at New York in 1874 aboard the City of Richmond from Liverpool and Queenstown, aged 19; servant.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
Showing 3 of 939 records for Brantley in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Brantley.
- Brann 4,350 · U.S. census
- Brannan 7,452 · U.S. census
- Brannen 4,101 · U.S. census
- Brannon 16,136 · U.S. census
- Branson 11,587 · U.S. census
- Brant 10,886 · U.S. census
- Braquet 239 · U.S. census
- Bras 350 · U.S. census
- Brashear 4,622 · U.S. census
- Brasher 6,634 · U.S. census
- Brasier 751 · U.S. census
- Brassard 1,809 · U.S. census
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