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Granger

#1,636 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Granger has been given to 2,153 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #1,636 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 234 recorded.

Babies named Granger, 2025

1 in 32,200

Granger over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Granger: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Granger means

Granger is a given name.

The naming story behind Granger

Wikidata records Granger as a given name, male given name. The entity identifier is Q42316690, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,147 boys were recorded with the name Granger between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 234 in 2021; its best national rank was #959 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,071 in 2020 to #1,636 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,199 in 2015 to #1,636 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Granger between 2022 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2022; its best national rank was #14,170 in 2022.

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.

How common is Granger?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 32,200
103 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 16,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,636
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,311 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Granger 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,311 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Granger. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Grangers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Granger was born before 2019 — so the typical Granger is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
49.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,116
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Choose a decade

2020s — 49.8% of all recorded uses (1,069).

Is Granger 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
−378
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−565
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+563
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.66×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.0%
Peak was 2021 (234)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#959
2021

Spellings of Granger

Granger is the most-used spelling, taking 50.4% of the 4,263 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 Granger is used

Across 2016–2025, Granger was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 3,448 boys, against 1 in 12,992 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 50,000).

229 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 3,448
  2. 2Missouri1 in 4,545
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 5,556
  4. 4Alabama1 in 5,882
  5. 5Iowa1 in 6,667
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 6,667
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 6,667
  8. 8Idaho1 in 7,143

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.

Granger around the world

Where Granger 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.

  • Canada
    2019–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Granger

People whose public names include Granger, 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.

Granger by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,636
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 565
Best rank ever
#959
2021
Peak year
2021
234 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,147
Count in 2025
103

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,170
2022
Peak year
2022
6 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Granger

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

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Names with a curve like Granger

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

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Sibling names for Granger

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

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