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Graci vs Grant

American parents have registered 136,669 Grants since 1880, against 1,532 Gracis. Grant is still ahead, with 1,555 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Graci 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 2005, when Graci had 126 and Grant had 2,664.

Side by side

  Graci Grant
Total US births 1,532136,669
Most in one year 1303,315
Babies in 2025 81,555
Estimated living today 1,500118,000
Median age today 1825
Peak year 20041997
Best rank 1,533rd girls115th boys
Rank in 2025 10,917th228th
First recorded 19901880
Girls / boys 1,532 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Grants alive today are over 25; half the Gracis are over 18. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Graci Grant
England and Wales 261,199

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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