Grady
Grady reached its high-water mark in 2008 at number 286, and has been recorded 53,215 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 373rd. About 33,000 Gradys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Grady boys named Grady
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 53,215
- Estimated living today
- 33,000
- Median age today
- 18
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 286th
- Rank in 2025
- 373rd
- First recorded
- 1887
- Girls / boys
- 741 / 52,474
How old the living Gradys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 53,215 babies given the name since 1887, about 33,000 are alive — 62 in every hundred. Roughly 16,000 of them are children and 5,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From the Irish surname, from Ó Grádaigh (see O'Grady) or Mag Bhrádaigh (see McGrady).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Gradys
- Grady Booch (born 1955)American software engineer
- Grady Diangana (born 1998)English association football player
- Grady Tate (1932–2017)American jazz musician
People named Grady with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Grady is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Grady is most concentrated in Georgia (4.5×), Alabama (4.4×), South Carolina (3.3×), North Carolina (3.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular boys’ names the year Grady peaked:
Grady elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Grady | 156 | 1,000th |
| France boys | Grady | 30 | 4,111th |
| England and Wales girls | Grady | 3 | 3,912th |
| Scotland boys | Grady | 3 | 480th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Grady against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.