Boys' name · since 2017
Grim
34 babies named Grim in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #24,909 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #13,318 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 34
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
34 babies have been named Grim since 2017, making it today's #13318 boys' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Grim has been recorded 34 times among boys since 2017, currently ranked #13318 nationally and more common than 4% of boys, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #24,909 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #13,318 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 34 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Grim ranks #24,909 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,318 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 34 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #24,909 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #13,318 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 34
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Grim's 34 recorded births place it above 44.95% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Grim compares
34 13th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Grim's all-time total is 91% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Grim | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 34 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 34 | 22,252 |
Grim's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Grim's SSA record in two at 2023 and the more recent half accounts for 53% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 47%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2017, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2024 peak of 7, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Grim popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Grim by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (29 births, 85% of the file).
2020s was Grim's strongest decade.
29 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 85% of all-time use.
Grim births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
29 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 29 births (85% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Grim draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.