Boy · Old English, through Scots
Graham
Say it: GRAY-um
Meaning
From a Scottish surname taken from Grantham in Lincolnshire, an Old English place name ending in ham 'homestead' whose first element is uncertain.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Used as a given name in Scotland and England since the 19th century and rising in the US in the 2010s.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 48,499 babies given this name since 1881
- At its height in 2015, about 1 in 805 boys
- 2,090 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Graeme
Famous bearers
- Graham Greene, English novelist
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Where this comes from
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.