Name Awesome

Graeme

#3,979 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Graham

Graeme has been given to 2,876 babies in the U.S. since 1933. In 2025 it ranked #3,979 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 201 recorded.

Babies named Graeme, 2025

1 in 123,000

Graeme over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Graeme: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Graham

surname transfer

What Graeme means

Graeme is a variant of Graham.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Graeme → Graham. The family’s meaning is “gravel + homestead”, recorded in English with the source elements grand and hām.

Origin, language, and formation

Graeme is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Graeme is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Graham.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Graeme is pronounced /ɡɹæm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,876 boys were recorded with the name Graeme between 1933 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 201 in 2012; its best national rank was #992 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,149 in 2020 to #3,979 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,291 in 2015 to #3,979 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Graeme?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,979
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Graeme sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Graeme. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Graemes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Graeme was born before 2010 — so the typical Graeme is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,848
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (1,285).

Is Graeme 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
−254
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,830
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,688
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.20×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.4%
Peak was 2012 (201)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#992
2012

Spellings of Graeme

Graeme is the most-used spelling, taking 57.8% of the 4,973 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Graeme is used

Across 2016–2025, Graeme was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 66,344 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 25,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 33,333
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  4. 4Colorado1 in 50,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 50,000
  6. 6New York1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

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.

Graeme around the world

Where Graeme 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 & Wales
    1996–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    1974–2020
    #599
    in 2020
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2001
    #280
    in 2001
  • Ireland
    1968–2013
    #711
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2004
    #589
    in 2004
  • New South Wales
    1952–1972
    #96
    in 1972

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Graeme

People whose public names include Graeme, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Graeme in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Graeme. Linked forms have their own page here.

GraeGramGrahamGrahame

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Graeme by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,979
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,830
Best rank ever
#992
2012
Peak year
2012
201 that year
First recorded
1933
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,876
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Graeme

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GracenGraydonGraydenGrangerGraysenGraceGraftonGraesonGrayGrahmGrabielGraycenGradynGraisonGradenGracynJeremeGraigGraylonGrayerGranvilleGracinGrahamGraylen

Names with a curve like Graeme

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Graeme, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ChanningJacenMasenMaxxElanKyranCarstenLathanKyronBrighamChevyJohann

Sibling names for Graeme

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Graeme

Top names of 2012, Graeme's peak yearThe 2010s in fullOther names that peaked in 2012Boys' names starting with G