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Grady vs Graziella

American parents have registered 53,215 Gradys since 1880, against 565 Graziellas. Grady is still ahead, with 860 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Grady against Graziella, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Grady Graziella

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

Grady has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1887 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1984, when Grady had 124 and Graziella had 15.

Side by side

  Grady Graziella
Total US births 53,215565
Most in one year 1,20316
Babies in 2025 86012
Estimated living today 33,000550
Median age today 1823
Peak year 20081979
Best rank 286th boys4,420th girls
Rank in 2025 373rd8,362nd
First recorded 18871965
Girls / boys 741 / 52,474565 / 0

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 Graziellas alive today are over 23; half the Gradys are over 18. That is 5 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 Grady Graziella
France 307,595
England and Wales 1596

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: Grady and Graziella.