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Graham vs Graziella

American parents have registered 61,671 Grahams since 1880, against 565 Graziellas. Graham is still ahead, with 2,980 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Graham 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

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 1967, when Graham had 106 and Graziella had 10.

Side by side

  Graham Graziella
Total US births 61,671565
Most in one year 2,98016
Babies in 2025 2,98012
Estimated living today 57,000550
Median age today 1223
Peak year 20251979
Best rank 120th boys4,420th girls
Rank in 2025 120th8,362nd
First recorded 18811965
Girls / boys 235 / 61,436565 / 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 Grahams are over 12. That is 11 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 Graham Graziella
France 1407,595
England and Wales 6256

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: Graham and Graziella.