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How popular is “Grant” in the USA?

Number of people named “Grant” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Grant” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Grant” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Grant” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Grant” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Grant” by birth year

This chart shows how “Grant” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 52 0.000258085 52 -100%
1881 33 0.000171261 33 -100%
1882 41 0.000185074 41 -100%
1883 32 0.000147502 32 -100%
1884 41 0.000168405 41 -100%
1885 59 0.000244962 59 -100%
1886 69 0.000270253 69 -100%
1887 48 0.000194024 48 -100%
1888 45 0.000150263 45 -100%
1889 39 0.000134973 39 -100%
1890 65 0.00021566 65 -100%
1891 56 0.000195345 56 -100%
1892 64 0.000191402 64 -100%
1893 55 0.000169115 55 -100%
1894 62 0.000183058 62 -100%
1895 77 0.000219361 77 -100%
1896 71 0.00019861 71 -100%
1897 72 0.000207519 72 -100%
1898 52 0.00013632 52 -100%
1899 40 0.000117913 40 -100%
1900 82 0.000182118 82 -100%
1901 45 0.000130129 45 -100%
1902 54 0.000139631 54 -100%
1903 61 0.000160021 61 -100%
1904 58 0.000143748 58 -100%
1905 63 0.000148612 63 -100%
1906 64 0.000149375 64 -100%
1907 75 0.000161155 75 -100%
1908 79 0.00016167 79 -100%
1909 59 0.000115409 59 -100%
1910 96 0.000162516 96 -100%
1911 67 0.000103992 67 -100%
1912 169 0.000171042 169 -100%
1913 186 0.000163573 186 -100%
1914 253 0.000178629 253 -100%
1915 357 0.000194824 357 -100%
1916 351 0.00018145 351 -100%
1917 398 0.000198331 398 -100%
1918 435 0.000200358 435 -100%
1919 406 0.000192395 406 -100%
1920 391 0.000172807 391 -100%
1921 411 0.000176054 411 -100%
1922 417 0.000182163 417 -100%
1923 381 0.000165474 381 -100%
1924 368 0.000154517 368 -100%
1925 373 0.000159859 373 -100%
1926 338 0.000147219 5 333 -97%
1927 347 0.00014961 347 -100%
1928 309 0.000136669 309 -100%
1929 296 0.000135027 296 -100%
1930 304 0.000136734 304 -100%
1931 261 0.000124027 261 -100%
1932 271 0.000128357 271 -100%
1933 253 0.000126535 253 -100%
1934 271 0.000130488 271 -100%
1935 288 0.000137806 288 -100%
1936 251 0.000120814 251 -100%
1937 275 0.000129067 275 -100%
1938 285 0.000128809 285 -100%
1939 290 0.000131612 290 -100%
1940 317 0.000137665 317 -100%
1941 373 0.000153093 373 -100%
1942 403 0.000147521 403 -100%
1943 417 0.000147738 417 -100%
1944 390 0.000144977 390 -100%
1945 343 0.000129292 343 -100%
1946 388 0.000121428 388 -100%
1947 451 0.000125197 451 -100%
1948 419 0.000121361 419 -100%
1949 465 0.000133438 465 -100%
1950 469 0.000133872 469 -100%
1951 504 0.000136818 504 -100%
1952 550 0.000144813 550 -100%
1953 551 0.000142982 551 -100%
1954 620 0.000155751 620 -100%
1955 610 0.000151927 610 -100%
1956 613 0.000148677 613 -100%
1957 639 0.000152065 639 -100%
1958 587 0.000141997 587 -100%
1959 590 0.000141895 590 -100%
1960 718 0.000172853 718 -100%
1961 813 0.000196268 813 -100%
1962 772 0.000191308 772 -100%
1963 780 0.000197059 780 -100%
1964 669 0.000172085 669 -100%
1965 619 0.000170737 619 -100%
1966 626 0.00018011 626 -100%
1967 577 0.000169961 577 -100%
1968 573 0.000169606 573 -100%
1969 658 0.000189335 658 -100%
1970 787 0.000218216 5 782 -99%
1971 668 0.000194619 7 661 -98%
1972 577 0.000183583 577 -100%
1973 582 0.000192914 6 576 -98%
1974 617 0.000202961 617 -100%
1975 724 0.000239783 5 719 -99%
1976 717 0.000236298 717 -100%
1977 731 0.000230128 6 725 -98%
1978 822 0.00025899 5 817 -99%
1979 1018 0.000305981 8 1010 -98%
1980 1116 0.000323994 9 1107 -98%
1981 1107 0.00032 6 1101 -99%
1982 1176 0.000335237 7 1169 -99%
1983 1559 0.000450144 9 1550 -99%
1984 1598 0.000458043 9 1589 -99%
1985 1661 0.000465382 10 1651 -99%
1986 1498 0.000421132 14 1484 -98%
1987 1572 0.000435987 7 1565 -99%
1988 1635 0.000442485 10 1625 -99%
1989 1680 0.000436994 1680 -100%
1990 1700 0.00043011 5 1695 -99%
1991 1739 0.000446439 6 1733 -99%
1992 1920 0.000499834 8 1912 -99%
1993 2160 0.000572902 2160 -100%
1994 2278 0.000612752 2278 -100%
1995 3211 0.000876806 5 3206 -100%
1996 3205 0.000878758 3205 -100%
1997 3315 0.000914294 3315 -100%
1998 3019 0.00082078 5 3014 -100%
1999 2939 0.000795643 2939 -100%
2000 3174 0.000839704 3174 -100%
2001 2929 0.000782446 5 2924 -100%
2002 3077 0.000823103 3077 -100%
2003 2917 0.000767163 2917 -100%
2004 2825 0.00073935 11 2814 -99%
2005 2664 0.000692876 6 2658 -100%
2006 2696 0.000681464 8 2688 -99%
2007 2568 0.000642372 2568 -100%
2008 2866 0.000729139 2866 -100%
2009 2735 0.000715936 7 2728 -99%
2010 2537 0.000686466 2537 -100%
2011 2541 0.000694681 2541 -100%
2012 2470 0.000675349 2470 -100%
2013 2419 0.000663527 2419 -100%
2014 2654 0.000716063 8 2646 -99%
2015 2361 0.000637951 2361 -100%
2016 2351 0.000640827 2351 -100%
2017 2293 0.000641184 2293 -100%
2018 2167 0.000616343 2167 -100%
2019 1987 0.000572469 5 1982 -99%
2020 1771 0.000530148 1771 -100%
2021 1789 0.000528048 1789 -100%
2022 1672 0.000494216 1672 -100%
2023 1541 0.000465391 1541 -100%
2024 1453 0.000436533 1453 -100%

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