Meaning not yet researched.
Graham: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,967 in 2025. Its best rank was #120 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.5% of babies named Graham in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#120 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Graham: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,967 boys in 2025. Peak: #120 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 2,967 (2025).
In 2025, 2,967 US boys were named Graham, making it the 120th most common boys’ name of the year, up 9 places from #129 in 2024. That is 169 more than the 2,798 boys named Graham in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #120, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,967. For comparison, it was #176 in 2015 and #697 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Graham in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 61,671 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 19,329 babies named Graham.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 23,867 US boys were named Graham; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,967. In 2025 that was about 1 in 576 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Graham ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #33 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 21 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Graeme (2,876 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Grahm, Gram and Grantham are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Anglo-Norman and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Grahm (692), Gram (360), Grantham (227), Gresham (165), Gramm (7), Graem (7), Grahame (6), Graeham (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Graham in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 24 | #33 | #126 |
| North Dakota | 21 | #38 | #103 |
| Wisconsin | 105 | #43 | #112 |
| District of Columbia | 16 | #44 | #106 |
| Ohio | 203 | #52 | #121 |
| Kansas | 55 | #57 | #130 |
| Indiana | 115 | #58 | #85 |
| Utah | 68 | #64 | #66 |
| Minnesota | 86 | #67 | #103 |
| Iowa | 48 | #67 | #116 |
| Nebraska | 34 | #68 | #64 |
| Maine | 17 | #72 | #139 |
| Missouri | 82 | #75 | #101 |
| Michigan | 121 | #75 | #131 |
| Colorado | 81 | #81 | #132 |
| Connecticut | 40 | #87 | #182 |
| Arkansas | 36 | #89 | #238 |
| New Hampshire | 17 | #90 | #148 |
| Massachusetts | 72 | #96 | #172 |
| Maryland | 57 | #99 | #191 |
| North Carolina | 122 | #100 | #137 |
| Virginia | 82 | #103 | #166 |
| Alabama | 51 | #104 | #174 |
| Kentucky | 51 | #105 | #111 |
| South Carolina | 48 | #110 | #136 |
| Tennessee | 84 | #110 | #190 |
| Pennsylvania | 111 | #113 | #159 |
| Illinois | 105 | #114 | #125 |
| Delaware | 9 | #116 | #127 |
| Rhode Island | 10 | #117 | #213 |
| Louisiana | 42 | #122 | #121 |
| Oregon | 33 | #122 | #174 |
| Washington | 64 | #126 | #183 |
| Georgia | 82 | #148 | #184 |
| West Virginia | 13 | #149 | #204 |
| Montana | 9 | #151 | — |
| Idaho | 18 | #154 | #196 |
| Texas | 242 | #156 | #242 |
| Mississippi | 20 | #160 | #222 |
| Alaska | 5 | #177 | — |
| Oklahoma | 26 | #192 | #116 |
| New Jersey | 50 | #198 | #237 |
| Florida | 110 | #200 | #306 |
| New York | 91 | #212 | #330 |
| Arizona | 37 | #221 | #197 |
| Nevada | 11 | #283 | #342 |
| California | 129 | #285 | #276 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #387 | #370 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,034 | 2,967 | #120 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,141 | 2,798 | #129 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,046 | 2,537 | #141 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,718 | 2,401 | #155 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,817 | 2,381 | #161 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,615 | 2,095 | #186 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,915 | 2,156 | #180 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,432 | 2,174 | #182 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,542 | 2,111 | #185 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,565 | 2,247 | #179 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,391 | 2,378 | #176 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,424 | 2,039 | #199 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,399 | 1,883 | #203 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,600 | 1,715 | #215 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,858 | 1,356 | #256 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,189 | #284 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,328 | #263 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,363 | 1,031 | #322 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,599 | 798 | #382 |
| 2006 | — | — | 649 | #430 |
| 2005 | — | — | 670 | #408 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,791 | 617 | #423 |
| 2003 | — | — | 662 | #396 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,203 | 619 | #408 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,206 | 631 | #398 |
| 2000 | — | — | 618 | #405 |
| 1999 | — | — | 598 | #405 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,006 | 600 | #405 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,537 | 554 | #418 |
| 1996 | — | — | 577 | #405 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,299 | 633 | #375 |
| 1994 | — | — | 590 | #393 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,279 | 668 | #352 |
| 1992 | — | — | 571 | #403 |
| 1991 | — | — | 629 | #369 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,732 | 586 | #396 |
| 1989 | — | — | 499 | #417 |
| 1988 | — | — | 488 | #407 |
| 1987 | — | — | 476 | #398 |
| 1986 | — | — | 564 | #339 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,716 | 522 | #353 |
| 1984 | — | — | 517 | #353 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,426 | 525 | #345 |
| 1982 | — | — | 474 | #369 |
| 1981 | — | — | 448 | #382 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,484 | 445 | #385 |
| 1979 | — | — | 366 | #416 |
| 1978 | — | — | 298 | #466 |
| 1977 | — | — | 249 | #532 |
| 1976 | — | — | 248 | #508 |
| 1975 | — | — | 233 | #527 |
| 1974 | — | — | 187 | #582 |
| 1973 | — | — | 175 | #594 |
| 1972 | — | — | 194 | #572 |
| 1971 | — | — | 205 | #570 |
| 1970 | — | — | 175 | #613 |
| 1969 | — | — | 161 | #615 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,507 | 110 | #717 |
| 1967 | — | — | 106 | #722 |
| 1966 | — | — | 103 | #729 |
| 1965 | — | — | 88 | #791 |
| 1964 | — | — | 99 | #766 |
| 1963 | — | — | 114 | #732 |
| 1962 | — | — | 108 | #739 |
| 1961 | — | — | 111 | #732 |
| 1960 | — | — | 94 | #792 |
| 1959 | — | — | 111 | #728 |
| 1958 | — | — | 107 | #719 |
| 1957 | — | — | 96 | #770 |
| 1956 | — | — | 96 | #751 |
| 1955 | — | — | 81 | #814 |
| 1954 | — | — | 92 | #747 |
| 1953 | — | — | 92 | #747 |
| 1952 | — | — | 93 | #729 |
| 1951 | — | — | 106 | #678 |
| 1950 | — | — | 97 | #697 |
| 1949 | — | — | 101 | #682 |
| 1948 | — | — | 93 | #694 |
| 1947 | — | — | 112 | #653 |
| 1946 | — | — | 100 | #644 |
| 1945 | — | — | 78 | #686 |
| 1944 | — | — | 99 | #619 |
| 1943 | — | — | 93 | #666 |
| 1942 | — | — | 100 | #637 |
| 1941 | — | — | 101 | #591 |
| 1940 | — | — | 86 | #649 |
| 1939 | — | — | 86 | #640 |
| 1938 | — | — | 112 | #547 |
| 1937 | — | — | 102 | #571 |
| 1936 | — | — | 95 | #595 |
| 1935 | — | — | 116 | #538 |
| 1934 | — | — | 110 | #564 |
| 1933 | — | — | 100 | #580 |
| 1932 | — | — | 113 | #557 |
| 1931 | — | — | 100 | #585 |
| 1930 | — | — | 102 | #607 |
| 1929 | — | — | 106 | #582 |
| 1928 | — | — | 117 | #569 |
| 1927 | — | — | 94 | #654 |
| 1926 | — | — | 101 | #623 |
| 1925 | — | — | 95 | #657 |
| 1924 | — | — | 90 | #687 |
| 1923 | — | — | 117 | #580 |
| 1922 | — | — | 105 | #631 |
| 1921 | — | — | 129 | #550 |
| 1920 | — | — | 108 | #606 |
| 1919 | — | — | 93 | #630 |
| 1918 | — | — | 85 | #676 |
| 1917 | — | — | 92 | #617 |
| 1916 | — | — | 109 | #547 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,556 | 98 | #572 |
| 1914 | — | — | 68 | #610 |
| 1913 | — | — | 53 | #606 |
| 1912 | — | — | 48 | #586 |
| 1911 | — | — | 28 | #580 |
| 1910 | — | — | 26 | #559 |
| 1909 | — | — | 19 | #627 |
| 1908 | — | — | 18 | #619 |
| 1907 | — | — | 17 | #623 |
| 1906 | — | — | 12 | #726 |
| 1905 | — | — | 12 | #721 |
| 1904 | — | — | 12 | #704 |
| 1903 | — | — | 13 | #631 |
| 1902 | — | — | 8 | #885 |
| 1900 | — | — | 15 | #658 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,109 |
| 1898 | — | — | 10 | #715 |
| 1897 | — | — | 7 | #886 |
| 1895 | — | — | 14 | #567 |
| 1894 | — | — | 12 | #604 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #954 |
| 1892 | — | — | 13 | #583 |
| 1891 | — | — | 7 | #802 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,060 |
| 1889 | — | — | 7 | #837 |
| 1888 | — | — | 8 | #778 |
| 1887 | — | — | 9 | #651 |
| 1886 | — | — | 7 | #794 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #997 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #900 |
| 1883 | — | — | 7 | #759 |
| 1882 | — | — | 7 | #790 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #925 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).