Grant

Boy · Anglo-Norman

Grant

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Meaning

From a Scottish and English surname, Anglo-Norman grant 'large, tall'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Used as a first name after Ulysses S. Grant in the late 1800s.

Its wave through time

Timeless: in steady use for over a century

In the United States

00.511.5218801900192019401960198020002020Peak 1997per 1,000 babies of that sex
  • 128,625 babies given this name since 1880
  • At its height in 1997, about 1 in 569 boys
  • 1,755 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
  2. The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

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Where this comes from

  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
  • National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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