Gram

Boys' name

Gravel + homestead, through Graham

Gram has been given to 360 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 2012, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Gram, 2024

1 in 371,000

Gram over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gram: meaning, origin, and history

Gravel + homestead, through Graham

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gram means

Gram belongs to the name family reached through Gram → Graham. Its meaning is “gravel + homestead”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gram is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Graham.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 360 boys were recorded with the name Gram between 1975 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2012; its best national rank was #4,439 in 2012.

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.

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How common is Gram?

Gram had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 371,000; 9 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 191,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 257,451 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Gram 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 2024 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 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gram. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Grams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gram was born before 2011 — so the typical Gram is around 14 today.

Median birth year: 2011; About 14 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 42.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 86.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 360; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 42.8% of all recorded uses (154).

Is Gram 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 2012 (22)
Years since peak: 13; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,439; 2012

Spellings of Gram

Gram is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 31.1% against Gram's 0.02%.

Adam31.1%580,378
Liam19.2%358,536
Ray11.0%204,701
Grant7.3%136,462
Sam6.8%127,234
Brad4.5%83,060
Greg4.2%77,706
Graham3.3%61,436

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.

Gram by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,439; 2012
Peak year: 2012; 22 that year
First recorded: 1975
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 360
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Gram

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

Grae Grahm Gradyn Gracyn Grace Iram Airam Joram Param Graylon Grayer Graison Graylen Graves Gray Bram Graesyn Gracen Grason Graycen Grabiel Grayton Gradie Amram

Sibling names for Gram

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

For a sister

Sofie Aubri Kaelynn Kendyl Bayleigh Audriana Cambria Farah

For a brother

Konnor Landry Harper Jovanni Maxim Channing Madden Eliot

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