Grady — #370 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Grady

The Social Security Administration has registered 51,619 babies named Grady between 1887 and 2024, spanning 138 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Grady currently holds the #370 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 1,196 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Grady performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 9,216 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Grady shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5,991 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Grady in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Grady in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 51,619 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.