Grenville
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Grenville has been given to 30 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1915, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Grenville, 1949
1 in 697,000
Grenville 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Grenville?
Grenville had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1949, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1949
- 1 in 697,000
- 5 of 3,484,085 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 355,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1949
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 482,998 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Grenville sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1949 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 482,998 children born in 1949 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Grenville. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Grenvilles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Grenville was born before 1918 — so the typical Grenville is around 107 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 63.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 63.3% of all recorded uses (19).
Is Grenville 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1915 (9)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Grenville
Grenville is not the most common spelling — Granville is, with 99.5% against Grenville's 0.54%.
- Granville99.5%5,501
- Grenville0.54%30
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.
Grenville around the world
Where Grenville 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 Australia1951–1958#433in 1958
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Grenville by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Grenville
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Grenville
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.