Grahm
Grahm was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,850 among boys’ names; 692 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Grahm by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Grahm?
#7,850 among boys’ names, 2025
Grahm fell from #4,206 in 2015 to #7,850 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.5 to 5.9 per million.
36 babies in 2008, the peak
Grahm peaked in 2008, when 36 boys were given it, #3,179 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,850 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,243 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,435 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,425 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,269 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,077 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,906 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,293 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,162 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,810 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,206 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,934 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,101 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,320 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,461 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,397 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 34 | #3,288 | 17.1 |
| 2008 | 36 | #3,179 | 17.6 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,726 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,216 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,356 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,581 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,669 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,084 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,346 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,649 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,390 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,249 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,315 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,157 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,085 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,022 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,415 | 9.7 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,332 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,598 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,784 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,942 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,683 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,356 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,029 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,355 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,682 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,728 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,560 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,609 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,406 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,325 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,920 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Grahm a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Grahm has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Grahm: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Grahm, and how old are they?
An estimated 678 Americans named Grahm and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 713 people named Grahm (5 women and girls, 708 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 621 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 62,723 babies since 1880, Grahm is the second most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 2,990 babies (<1%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Grahm
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Grahm and names like it
- Compare Grahm and GrahamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGrahm peaked in 2008.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Grahm since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Grahm.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Grahm alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.