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Graceann vs Grant

American parents have registered 136,669 Grants since 1880, against 1,032 Graceanns. Grant is still ahead, with 1,555 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Graceann against Grant, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Graceann Grant

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Grant has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1949, when Graceann had 19 and Grant had 465.

Side by side

  Graceann Grant
Total US births 1,032136,669
Most in one year 373,315
Babies in 2025 71,555
Estimated living today 950118,000
Median age today 2425
Peak year 20081997
Best rank 4,179th girls115th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932nd228th
First recorded 19331880
Girls / boys 1,032 / 0207 / 136,462

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Graceann and Grant.