Granville
Granville was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,674 among boys’ names; 5,501 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Granville and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 50 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Granville by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Granville mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Granville is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “grand” (grant) and “settlement” (ville).
The commune of France is from Old French Granville, Grandvilla, Grande Villa, Grandivilla, from grant (“grand”) + ville (“settlement”). The surname is of Norman baronial origin, from Grainville, a former commune in Normandy, from the given name Guarin + ville, meaning “Guarin’s town”. Guarin ultimately derives from Proto-Germanic *warduz (“guard”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Granville?
#12,674 among boys’ names, 2025
Granville rose from #12,729 in 2015 to #12,674 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 2.9 per million.
148 babies in 1918, the peak
Granville peaked in 1918, when 148 boys were given it, #490 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,674 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,943 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,070 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,385 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,380 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,729 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,184 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,950 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,212 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,538 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (134)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 9 | #7,858 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,257 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,399 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,895 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,107 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,394 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,790 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,461 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,152 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,113 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,418 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,578 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,525 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,943 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,272 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,714 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,892 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,559 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,967 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 24 | #2,180 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,288 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,654 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,191 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,599 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,593 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,272 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,027 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,497 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 37 | #1,387 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,887 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 29 | #1,648 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 23 | #1,868 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 28 | #1,538 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 22 | #1,710 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 25 | #1,551 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 28 | #1,463 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 27 | #1,494 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 32 | #1,392 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,289 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 30 | #1,437 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,240 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,183 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,269 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 49 | #1,096 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,172 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 54 | #1,021 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,243 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,029 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 47 | #1,065 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 53 | #988 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 58 | #923 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 57 | #909 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 52 | #959 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 58 | #905 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 73 | #810 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 81 | #726 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 52 | #868 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 74 | #725 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 73 | #766 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 66 | #791 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 68 | #754 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 74 | #705 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 71 | #710 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 65 | #758 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 71 | #717 | 0.07 |
| 1936 | 69 | #721 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 70 | #734 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 87 | #644 | 0.08 |
| 1933 | 79 | #659 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 89 | #637 | 0.09 |
| 1931 | 87 | #636 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 95 | #630 | 0.09 |
| 1929 | 92 | #641 | 0.09 |
| 1928 | 97 | #622 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 98 | #641 | 0.09 |
| 1926 | 106 | #608 | 0.10 |
| 1925 | 125 | #551 | 0.11 |
| 1924 | 142 | #529 | 0.13 |
| 1923 | 146 | #507 | 0.13 |
| 1922 | 125 | #568 | 0.11 |
| 1921 | 118 | #583 | 0.11 |
| 1920 | 140 | #516 | 0.13 |
| 1919 | 123 | #540 | 0.13 |
| 1918 | 148 | #490 | 0.15 |
| 1917 | 121 | #526 | 0.13 |
| 1916 | 116 | #533 | 0.13 |
| 1915 | 95 | #584 | 0.11 |
| 1914 | 88 | #526 | 0.13 |
| 1913 | 52 | #612 | 0.10 |
| 1912 | 51 | #564 | 0.12 |
| 1911 | 38 | #474 | 0.17 |
| 1910 | 24 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1909 | 21 | #581 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 26 | #492 | 0.17 |
| 1907 | 17 | #624 | 0.12 |
| 1906 | 26 | #432 | 0.20 |
| 1905 | 25 | #436 | 0.19 |
| 1904 | 28 | #395 | 0.22 |
| 1903 | 21 | #454 | 0.18 |
| 1902 | 17 | #527 | 0.14 |
| 1901 | 24 | #385 | 0.23 |
| 1900 | 21 | #521 | 0.14 |
| 1899 | 18 | #444 | 0.17 |
| 1898 | 21 | #441 | 0.17 |
| 1897 | 22 | #405 | 0.20 |
| 1896 | 20 | #448 | 0.17 |
| 1895 | 29 | #342 | 0.25 |
| 1894 | 20 | #427 | 0.17 |
| 1893 | 23 | #374 | 0.20 |
| 1892 | 30 | #343 | 0.25 |
| 1891 | 17 | #433 | 0.17 |
| 1890 | 16 | #469 | 0.14 |
| 1889 | 17 | #450 | 0.15 |
| 1888 | 24 | #379 | 0.20 |
| 1887 | 21 | #360 | 0.21 |
| 1886 | 19 | #407 | 0.17 |
| 1885 | 23 | #369 | 0.21 |
| 1884 | 27 | #338 | 0.24 |
| 1883 | 15 | #467 | 0.14 |
| 1882 | 25 | #359 | 0.22 |
| 1881 | 21 | #368 | 0.21 |
| 1880 | 27 | #330 | 0.24 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Granville a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Granville has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 134 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Granville: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Granville, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 27% of the 5,501 Americans ever recorded as Granville. The median Granville alive today is 66 years old; half are between 50 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 1,873 people named Granville (14 women and girls, 1,859 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,780 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 243 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 598 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 317 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 79 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 45 |
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 Granville born?
The states with the most babies named Granville are Kentucky, Virginia and Texas, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 369 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Virginia | 277 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Texas | 265 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 230 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 148 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Oklahoma | 102 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| West Virginia | 93 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Missouri | 75 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 74 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Arkansas | 65 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Granville is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Granville is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Granville with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Granville
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 Granville and names like it
- Compare Granville and LutherBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sGranville peaked in 1918.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Granville since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Granville: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Granville.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Granville alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.