Gradie
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gradie has been given to 648 babies in the U.S. since 1910. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 22 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 66% boys, 34% girls all-time.
Babies named Gradie, 2008
1 in 655,000
Gradie over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Gradie over time
In 2025, Gradie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Gradie?
Gradie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 655,000
- 6 of 3,930,727 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 340,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 454,097 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gradie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gradie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gradies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gradie was born before 1925 — so the typical Gradie is around 100 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 34.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 1.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 34
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 34.5% of all recorded uses (147).
Is Gradie rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1917 (22)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.2% average annual change
Spellings of Gradie
Gradie is not the most common spelling — Grady is, with 67.8% against Gradie's 0.55%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Gradie is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Gradie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 809,075 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in —
- 2North Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gradie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Gradie is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Gradie was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 572,848 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Tennessee1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gradie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gradie around the world
Where Gradie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2006–2006#4,950in 2006
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Gradie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Gradie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gradie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.