How Many People Are Named Graham?
people named Graham are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 6,031 people in the US has this name
Based on 61,671 babies named Graham in Social Security records from 1881 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
2,980 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a Scottish surname, originally derived from the English place name Grantham, which probably meant "gravelly homestead" in Old English. The surname was first taken to Scotland in the 12th century by the Norman baron William de Graham. A famous bearer was Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-Canadian-American inventor who devised the telephone.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Graham in English. Counting Graham and these spellings together, about 59,441 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Graham (99.6%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Graham alive today is about 18 years old, and 78% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 27 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Graham first appears in the records in 1881, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 2,980 babies.
Babies given the name each year, 1881 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Graham has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #120, in 2025. In 2025 it ranked #120.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #120 |
| Best rank | #120 (2025) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #199 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Graham alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Graham were born in California than in any other state: about 3,908 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Graham was given 2.1 times as often in North Carolina, 1.8 times in Minnesota and 1.8 times in New Hampshire.
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