How rare is the name Grant?

109,200 people in the United States have the first name Grant, about 1 in 2,766. It ranks #520 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

GRANT

#520

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
109,200
About
1 in 2,766
This common or more
59.2%
Who bears it

Of the 109,200 people named Grant, 87.1% reported their origin as White, 4.1% as two or more races and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Grant peaked in 1997, when 3,315 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1997
Births that year
3,315
In 2025*
1,555 ▼53%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 136,669 babies have been given the name since 1880. 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.

Grant by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #260. The largest share of babies named Grant, 33.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1880s#524459
1890s#573614
1900s#660640
1910s#6012,718
1920s#6513,631
1930s#7172,749
1940s#6843,966
1950s#6675,733
1960s#6466,805
1970s#6057,242
1980s#37514,603
1990s#26425,486
2000s#26028,453
2010s#31723,783
2020s#4239,787
Before 19010.8%
Greatest Generation 1901–274.6%
Silent Generation 1928–454.1%
Baby boom 1946–648.2%
Generation X 1965–808.3%
Millennials 1981–9621.7%
Generation Z 1997–1233.1%
2013 and later19%

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 Grant is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Grant has been most common in Utah (2.8×), Idaho (2.1×), and Minnesota (1.9×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.23×).

131,296 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.

Either side of Grant

#518 Norman · 109,382#519 Clara · 109,248#521 Brayden · 109,062#522 Aidan · 108,843

Also a last name

As a last name, Grant ranks #196 of 156,621, with 139,862 people. See Grant as a last name

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