Grady

At the 2020 census, 25,079 Americans bore the surname Grady — 1,388th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,900.

By the numbers

People: 25,079
Rank: 1,388th
How common: 1 in 11,900
Per 100,000: 8.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

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.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Grady described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 67.7%
Black, not Hispanic 23.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Grady

James Grady (born 1949)American writer
Don Grady (1944–2012)actor, composer, musician
Michael Grady (born 1996)American rower

People named Grady with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Grady

Also a first name

Grady has been given to 53,215 American babies as a first name since 1887, peaking in 2008. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.