Granger
Granger was given to 103 boys in 2025, #1,636 among boys’ names; 2,153 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,080 Americans named Granger and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Granger by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Granger?
#1,636 among boys’ names, 2025
Granger rose from #2,199 in 2015 to #1,636 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 32.3 to 60.3 per million.
234 babies in 2021, the peak
Granger peaked in 2021, when 234 boys were given it, #959 among boys’ names. The 103 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 103 | #1,636 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 157 | #1,258 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 183 | #1,146 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 205 | #1,069 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 234 | #959 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 187 | #1,071 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 161 | #1,191 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 145 | #1,268 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 127 | #1,389 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 110 | #1,526 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,199 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,002 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,287 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,912 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,759 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,148 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,901 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,577 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,384 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,094 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,791 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,395 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,447 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,840 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,484 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,392 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,970 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,789 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,296 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,273 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,023 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,491 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,487 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,309 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,001 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,543 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,729 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,655 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,142 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,321 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,152 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,858 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,374 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,935 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,346 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,364 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,403 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,278 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,429 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,977 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,177 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,376 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,600 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,505 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,311 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,981 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,624 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,057 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,686 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Granger a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Granger has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 59 years of records.
Girls and boys named Granger: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Granger, and how old are they?
2,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,153 Americans ever recorded as Granger. The median Granger alive today is 6 years old; half are between 4 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 1,087 people named Granger (27 women and girls, 1,060 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,073 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 46 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 57 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 61 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 181 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,740 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Granger born?
The states with the most babies named Granger are Texas, Georgia and Ohio, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Granger with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,315 babies since 1880, Granger is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 103 of their 113 babies (91%), again the 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 Granger
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 Granger and names like it
- Compare Granger and GraingerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGranger peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Granger since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Granger.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Granger alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.