Humanverse

Graceyn vs Graham

American parents have registered 61,671 Grahams since 1880, against 540 Graceyns. Graham is still ahead, with 2,980 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Graceyn against Graham, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Graceyn Graham

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

Graham has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Graceyn had 32 and Graham had 1,189.

Side by side

  Graceyn Graham
Total US births 54061,671
Most in one year 462,980
Babies in 2025 132,980
Estimated living today 54057,000
Median age today 1112
Peak year 20162025
Best rank 3,411th girls120th boys
Rank in 2025 7,885th120th
First recorded 20011881
Girls / boys 540 / 0235 / 61,436

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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