Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys
Origin: EnglishGraham is a masculine given name in the English language. It is derived from the surname. The variant form Graeme can also be
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In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Graham yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Graham is at its high point right now: 2,789 births in 2024, rank 129, both bests. Growth of 37% over ten years, from a base first recorded in 1881. The namesake list leans on middle names more than it looks — Alexander Graham Bell, born 1847, carried it second, as did David Niven and Terry Jones. Graham Greene, born 1904, is the clearest case of someone actually known by it. What the numbers show is a name that spent well over a century as a low-frequency British import and only recently found American traction; 58,681 births across that entire span is very little for a name present since the 1880s. It has no strong generational stamp, which is unusual and probably the point for parents choosing it.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1881 | 5 | #925 |
| 1882 | 7 | #790 |
| 1883 | 7 | #759 |
| 1884 | 6 | #900 |
| 1885 | 5 | #997 |
| 1886 | 7 | #794 |
| 1887 | 9 | #651 |
| 1888 | 8 | #778 |
| 1889 | 7 | #837 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,060 |
| 1891 | 7 | #802 |
| 1892 | 13 | #583 |
| 1893 | 6 | #954 |
| 1894 | 12 | #604 |
| 1895 | 14 | #567 |
| 1897 | 7 | #886 |
| 1898 | 10 | #715 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,109 |
| 1900 | 15 | #658 |
| 1902 | 8 | #885 |
| 1903 | 13 | #631 |
| 1904 | 12 | #704 |
| 1905 | 12 | #721 |
| 1906 | 12 | #726 |
| 1907 | 17 | #623 |
| 1908 | 18 | #619 |
| 1909 | 19 | #627 |
| 1910 | 26 | #559 |
| 1911 | 28 | #580 |
| 1912 | 48 | #586 |
| 1913 | 53 | #606 |
| 1914 | 68 | #610 |
| 1915 | 98 | #572 |
| 1916 | 109 | #547 |
| 1917 | 92 | #617 |
| 1918 | 85 | #676 |
| 1919 | 93 | #630 |
| 1920 | 108 | #606 |
| 1921 | 129 | #550 |
| 1922 | 105 | #631 |
| 1923 | 117 | #580 |
| 1924 | 90 | #687 |
| 1925 | 95 | #657 |
| 1926 | 101 | #623 |
| 1927 | 94 | #654 |
| 1928 | 117 | #569 |
| 1929 | 106 | #582 |
| 1930 | 102 | #607 |
| 1931 | 100 | #585 |
| 1932 | 113 | #557 |
| 1933 | 100 | #580 |
| 1934 | 110 | #564 |
| 1935 | 116 | #538 |
| 1936 | 95 | #595 |
| 1937 | 102 | #571 |
| 1938 | 112 | #547 |
| 1939 | 86 | #640 |
| 1940 | 86 | #649 |
| 1941 | 101 | #591 |
| 1942 | 100 | #637 |
| 1943 | 93 | #666 |
| 1944 | 99 | #619 |
| 1945 | 78 | #686 |
| 1946 | 100 | #645 |
| 1947 | 112 | #653 |
| 1948 | 93 | #694 |
| 1949 | 101 | #682 |
| 1950 | 97 | #697 |
| 1951 | 106 | #678 |
| 1952 | 93 | #729 |
| 1953 | 92 | #747 |
| 1954 | 92 | #747 |
| 1955 | 81 | #814 |
| 1956 | 96 | #751 |
| 1957 | 96 | #770 |
| 1958 | 107 | #719 |
| 1959 | 111 | #728 |
| 1960 | 94 | #792 |
| 1961 | 111 | #732 |
| 1962 | 108 | #739 |
| 1963 | 114 | #732 |
| 1964 | 99 | #766 |
| 1965 | 88 | #791 |
| 1966 | 103 | #729 |
| 1967 | 106 | #722 |
| 1968 | 110 | #718 |
| 1969 | 161 | #615 |
| 1970 | 175 | #613 |
| 1971 | 205 | #570 |
| 1972 | 194 | #572 |
| 1973 | 175 | #594 |
| 1974 | 186 | #583 |
| 1975 | 233 | #527 |
| 1976 | 248 | #508 |
| 1977 | 249 | #532 |
| 1978 | 298 | #466 |
| 1979 | 366 | #416 |
| 1980 | 445 | #386 |
| 1981 | 449 | #382 |
| 1982 | 474 | #369 |
| 1983 | 525 | #345 |
| 1984 | 518 | #353 |
| 1985 | 521 | #353 |
| 1986 | 564 | #339 |
| 1987 | 476 | #398 |
| 1988 | 488 | #407 |
| 1989 | 499 | #417 |
| 1990 | 587 | #395 |
| 1991 | 629 | #369 |
| 1992 | 571 | #403 |
| 1993 | 668 | #352 |
| 1994 | 589 | #394 |
| 1995 | 633 | #374 |
| 1996 | 577 | #405 |
| 1997 | 554 | #418 |
| 1998 | 600 | #405 |
| 1999 | 598 | #405 |
| 2000 | 618 | #405 |
| 2001 | 631 | #398 |
| 2002 | 619 | #408 |
| 2003 | 662 | #396 |
| 2004 | 617 | #423 |
| 2005 | 670 | #408 |
| 2006 | 649 | #430 |
| 2007 | 798 | #382 |
| 2008 | 1,031 | #322 |
| 2009 | 1,328 | #263 |
| 2010 | 1,189 | #284 |
| 2011 | 1,356 | #256 |
| 2012 | 1,715 | #215 |
| 2013 | 1,883 | #203 |
| 2014 | 2,039 | #199 |
| 2015 | 2,378 | #176 |
| 2016 | 2,247 | #179 |
| 2017 | 2,111 | #185 |
| 2018 | 2,174 | #182 |
| 2019 | 2,156 | #180 |
| 2020 | 2,095 | #186 |
| 2021 | 2,381 | #161 |
| 2022 | 2,400 | #155 |
| 2023 | 2,537 | #141 |
| 2024 | 2,789 | #129 |
