Grae
#7,848 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Grae has been given to 327 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #7,848 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 52% boys, 48% girls all-time.
Babies named Grae, 2025
1 in 332,000
Grae 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Grae over time
In 2025, Grae went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Grae?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 171,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,848
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Grae sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Grae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Graes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Grae was born before 2019 — so the typical Grae is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 45.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 87.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 170
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (78).
Is Grae 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
- +711
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,748
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 55.6%
- Peak was 2020 (18)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.8% average annual change
Spellings of Grae
Grae is not the most common spelling — Ray is, with 20.0% against Grae's 0.02%.
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 Grae is used
Across 1910–2025, Grae was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Grae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Grae around the world
Where Grae 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.
- England & Wales2016–2023#4,992in 2023
- Canada2019–2021#2,792in 2021
- South Australia1945–1957#427in 1957
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Grae by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Grae
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Grae
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.