Grantley

#7,853 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Grantley has been given to 180 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #7,853 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Grantley, 2025

1 in 332,000

Grantley over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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
#7,853
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Grantley 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Grantley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Grantleys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Grantley was born before 2017 — so the typical Grantley is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
180
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2010s — 53.3% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Grantley 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
−1,858
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,441
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,400
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2014 (15)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,820
2014

Spellings of Grantley

Grantley is not the most common spelling — Brantley is, with 80.5% against Grantley's 0.46%.

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.

Grantley around the world

Where Grantley 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.

  • South Australia
    1944–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Grantley by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,853
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,441
Best rank ever
#5,820
2014
Peak year
2014
15 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
180
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Grantley

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

Sibling names for Grantley

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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