Granger
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #13,592 · #1,634 for boys in 2025, 103 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 234 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,147since 1912
Granger over time
Rank among boys' names. Granger has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,634 | 103 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,256 | 157 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,144 | 183 | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #1,069 | 205 |
| 2021 | — | #957 | 234 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,069 | 187 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,188 | 161 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,261 | 145 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,384 | 127 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,522 | 110 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,189 | 62 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,985 | 38 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,265 | 33 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,862 | 19 | |
| 2011 | — | #5,675 | 15 | |
| 2010 | — | #6,036 | 14 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,800 | 15 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,487 | 16 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,262 | 13 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,904 | 11 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,634 | 11 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,143 | 8 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,245 | 9 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,725 | 12 | |
| 2001 | — | — | ||
| 2000 | — | #6,316 | 10 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,873 | 13 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,642 | 10 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,360 | 10 | |
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| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
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| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
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| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,282 | 7 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,900 | 9 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
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| 1953 | — | #2,531 | 10 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
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| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
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| 1917 | — | #2,562 | 10 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Granger! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1916, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Granger is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Idaho#350 · 1 in 1,336
- Indiana#493 · 1 in 2,340
- Oklahoma#503 · 1 in 2,244
- Iowa#504 · 1 in 2,343
- Arkansas#543 · 1 in 2,599
Best ever in a state: #336 in West Virginia, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #350 | 6 | 1 in 1,336 |
| Indiana | #493 | 14 | 1 in 2,340 |
| Oklahoma | #503 | 8 | 1 in 2,244 |
| Iowa | #504 | 6 | 1 in 2,343 |
| Arkansas | #543 | 5 | 1 in 2,599 |
| Tennessee | #556 | 12 | 1 in 2,986 |
| Utah | #560 | 7 | 1 in 2,743 |
| Ohio | #571 | 16 | 1 in 3,388 |
| Minnesota | #590 | 8 | 1 in 3,142 |
| Alabama | #605 | 7 | 1 in 3,145 |
| Missouri | #626 | 8 | 1 in 3,568 |
| Kentucky | #656 | 5 | 1 in 3,970 |
| Michigan | #658 | 11 | 1 in 3,906 |
| North Carolina | #740 | 11 | 1 in 4,639 |
| Wisconsin | #778 | 5 | 1 in 4,865 |
| Colorado | #805 | 5 | 1 in 5,165 |
| Georgia | #830 | 10 | 1 in 5,037 |
| Virginia | #838 | 7 | 1 in 5,587 |
| Texas | #1,072 | 19 | 1 in 9,007 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,100 | 6 | 1 in 9,243 |
| Florida | #1,758 | 5 | 1 in 18,552 |
| New York | #1,801 | 5 | 1 in 17,826 |
| California | #1,840 | 8 | 1 in 23,672 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Granger
- 378 spots since 2024 (#1,256 → #1,634)
- 565 spots since 2020 (#1,069 → #1,634)
- 555 spots since 2015 (#2,189 → #1,634)
- Biggest jump: 112 spots in 2021 (#1,069 → #957)
- Biggest drop: 112 spots in 2022 (#957 → #1,069)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2021 at #957 (234 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2021
- Highest: 1 in 7,476 boys born in 2021 were named Granger (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,583 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 49.8% of all boys named Granger (1,069) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 20 | #2,544 (1912) | #2,977 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,776 (1932) | #3,776 |
| 1940s | 6 | #3,173 (1946) | #3,173 |
| 1950s | 23 | #2,531 (1953) | #3,060 |
| 1960s | 60 | #2,861 (1969) | #3,246 |
| 1970s | 32 | #4,012 (1976) | #4,737 |
| 1980s | 34 | #4,495 (1980) | #5,601 |
| 1990s | 69 | #4,873 (1998) | #6,378 |
| 2000s | 105 | #5,487 (2008) | #6,502 |
| 2010s | 724 | #1,188 (2019) | #3,037 |
| 2020s | 1,069 | #957 (2021) | #1,188 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Granger in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 7,476 of them was named Granger, which outranked 93.2% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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Tied with 5 names at #957; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.