first name
GRADY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 27,688 people named Grady, 83.2% reported their origin as White, 10.1% as Black and 3.2% as two or more races. 98.8% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Grady peaked in 2008, when 1,203 babies got the name.
At least 53,215 babies have been given the name since 1887. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Grady by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #469. The largest share of babies named Grady, 20.9%, were born in 2013 or later.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Grady is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Grady has been most common in Georgia (4.5×), Alabama (4.4×), and South Carolina (3.3×), and least common in New Jersey (0.2×).
47,272 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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Also a last name
As a last name, Grady ranks #1,388 of 156,621, with 25,079 people. See Grady as a last name
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