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Granville

#12,674 in 2025Boys' name

Grand + settlement

Granville has been given to 5,501 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #12,674 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 148 recorded.

Babies named Granville, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Granville: meaning, origin, and history

Grand + settlement

surname transfer

What Granville means

Granville means “grand + settlement”, associated with grant and ville.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

The commune of France is from Old French Granville, Grandvilla, Grande Villa, Grandivilla, from grant (“grand”) + ville (“settlement”). The surname is of Norman baronial origin, from Grainville, a former commune in Normandy, from the given name Guarin + ville, meaning “Guarin's town”. Guarin ultimately derives from Proto-Germanic *warduz (“guard”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Granville (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

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

Granville comes through Old French Granville and Proto-Germanic *warduz.

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,501 boys were recorded with the name Granville between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 148 in 1918; its best national rank was #330 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,070 in 2020 to #12,674 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,729 in 2015 to #12,674 in 2025.

How common is Granville?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,674
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Granville 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Granville. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Granvilles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Granville was born before 1930 — so the typical Granville is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,341
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1920s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (1,189).

Is Granville 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
+269
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,604
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+55
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.4%
Peak was 1918 (148)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#330
1880

Where Granville is used

Across 1910–2025, Granville was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 60,551 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 8,333
  2. 2Virginia1 in 14,286
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 16,667
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 16,667
  5. 5Delaware1 in 20,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Mississippi1 in 33,333

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. Granville has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Granville around the world

Where Granville 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
    1946–1946
    #252
    in 1946

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

Notable people named Granville

People whose public names include Granville, 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.

Granville by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,674
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,604
Best rank ever
#330
1880
Peak year
1918
148 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,501
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Granville

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

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Names with a curve like Granville

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

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Sibling names for Granville

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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