Grahame
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Grahame has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1978. 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 1978, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Grahame, 1978
1 in 529,000
Grahame 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Grahame?
Grahame had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1978
- 1 in 529,000
- 6 of 3,173,639 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 274,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1978
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 366,634 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Grahame sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1978 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 366,634 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Grahame. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Grahames were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Grahame was born before 1978 — so the typical Grahame is around 47 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 6
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Grahame 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 1978 (6)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Grahame
Grahame is not the most common spelling — Graham is, with 94.5% against Grahame's <0.01%.
Grahame around the world
Where Grahame 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 & Wales1996–1996#2,020in 1996
- Scotland1974–1993#305in 1993
- Ireland1979–1992#267in 1992
- South Australia1945–2002#606in 2002
- New South Wales1952–1960#94in 1960
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0.
Grahame by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Grahame
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Grahame
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.