Grafton
Grafton is a boy's name that peaked in 1916, when it was the 1,374th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 570 Graftons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Grafton
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,080
- Estimated living today
- 570
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 1,374th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,243rd
- First recorded
- 1886
How old the living Graftons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,080 babies given the name since 1886, about 570 are alive — 53 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 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.
Notable Graftons
- Grafton Elliot Smith (1871–1937)Australian anatomist
People named Grafton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Grafton is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular boys’ names the year Grafton peaked:
Related names
Grafton against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.