Graham
The 2025 national count puts Graham at #120, and gathering speed. An old entry (1881) having its biggest moment now, with 61,436 American bearers across the record.
Graham’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Graham, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Graham since 1881
Graham is at its all-time peak right now: #120 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Graham is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Graham runs strongest in District of Columbia at 0.63% in 2025, then North Dakota and South Dakota.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Graham
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Georgia
#99 in 2025
Greyson
#149 in 2025
Gemma
#170 in 2025 · Italian
Griffin
#222 in 2025
Grayson
#51 in 2025
Gianna
#33 in 2025
Hallie
#120 in 2025
Emmett
#121 in 2025
Browse: names starting with G · all names
About Graham
How popular is the name Graham?
The 2025 national count puts Graham at #120, and gathering speed. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1881.
What is the recorded meaning of Graham?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Graham keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
What names go with Graham?
The recipe puts Georgia first, then Gemma, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
Get Graham’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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