Grant
Grant is a boy's name that peaked in 1997, when it was the 115th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 228th. About 118,000 Grants are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Grant boys named Grant
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 136,669
- Estimated living today
- 118,000
- Median age today
- 25
- Peak year
- 1997
- Best rank
- 115th
- Rank in 2025
- 228th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 207 / 136,462
How old the living Grants are
born that year still alive today
Of the 136,669 babies given the name since 1880, about 118,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 39,000 of them are children and 6,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 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
Origin a surname
From Scottish Gaelic Grannd, from Anglo-Norman graunt (“big, large”), from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of Ulysses S. Grant featured on it.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Grants
- Grant Wood (1891–1942)American painter
- Grant Gustin (born 1990)American actor and singer
- Grant Holloway (born 1997)American athlete
- Grant Hill (born 1972)American basketball player
- Robert Grant Aitken (1864–1951)American astronomer
- Grant Imahara (1970–2020)American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor
- Grant Shapps (born 1968)British politician
- Grant Hanley (born 1991)Scottish association football player
People named Grant with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Grant is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Grant is most concentrated in Utah (2.8×), Idaho (2.1×), Minnesota (1.9×), Oregon (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1997
The most popular boys’ names the year Grant peaked:
Grant elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand boys | Grant | 8,355 | 14th |
| Scotland boys | Grant | 5,242 | 29th |
| England and Wales boys | Grant | 1,199 | 128th |
| Ireland boys | Grant | 35 | 234th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Grant | 21 | 192nd |
| France boys | Grant | 5 | 2,183rd |
| Poland boys | Grant | 2 birth registrations | 745th |
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.
Grant among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Grant | 10 | 25 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Grant 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.