Grafton

Where Grafton comes from

Grafton hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1864
    Grafton D. Cushing born
    American politician
  2. 1871
    Grafton Elliot Smith born
    Australian anatomist
  3. 1886
    First appearance
    #959 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1895
    Peak, #872
    7 babies named Grafton — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1897
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Grafton Elliot Smith · Australian anatomist, 1871–1937
  • Grafton D. Cushing · American politician, 1864–1939
  • Grafton Tyler Brown · American artist and cartographer, 1841–1918
  • Grafton Green · American judge in Tennessee, 1872–1947

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.