Meaning not yet researched.
Granger: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 103 in 2025. Its best rank was #959 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #959 in 2021; #1,636 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Granger in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,636 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #959.
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Granger: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 103 boys in 2025. Peak: #959 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 234 (2021).
In 2025, 103 US boys were named Granger, making it the 1,636th most common boys’ name of the year, down 378 places from #1,258 in 2024. That is 54 fewer than the 157 boys named Granger in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #959, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 234. For comparison, it was #2,199 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Granger in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 2,153 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,075 babies named Granger.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,612 US boys were named Granger; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 234. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,583 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Granger ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #819 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Grainger 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Grainger (162).
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 Granger 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 6 | #819 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #996 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,142 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,142 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,156 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,701 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #1,805 | #1,262 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 103 | #1,636 |
| 2024 | — | — | 157 | #1,258 |
| 2023 | — | — | 183 | #1,146 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,175 | 205 | #1,069 |
| 2021 | — | — | 234 | #959 |
| 2020 | — | — | 187 | #1,071 |
| 2019 | — | — | 161 | #1,191 |
| 2018 | — | — | 145 | #1,268 |
| 2017 | — | — | 127 | #1,389 |
| 2016 | — | — | 110 | #1,526 |
| 2015 | — | — | 62 | #2,199 |
| 2014 | — | — | 38 | #3,004 |
| 2013 | — | — | 33 | #3,289 |
| 2012 | — | — | 19 | #4,917 |
| 2011 | — | — | 15 | #5,764 |
| 2010 | — | — | 14 | #6,153 |
| 2009 | — | — | 15 | #5,905 |
| 2008 | — | — | 16 | #5,582 |
| 2007 | — | — | 13 | #6,388 |
| 2006 | — | — | 11 | #7,099 |
| 2005 | — | — | 11 | #6,797 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,401 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,454 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,847 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,492 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,399 |
| 1998 | — | — | 13 | #4,976 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #5,795 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #8,303 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,280 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #6,029 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,497 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,495 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,316 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #6,007 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,549 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,733 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,657 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,145 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,323 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,154 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #4,860 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,376 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,936 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,347 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,365 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,404 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,279 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,430 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #2,978 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,178 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,377 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,601 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,507 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,312 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #3,984 |
| 1917 | — | — | 10 | #2,625 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,059 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,687 |
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).