Granville
Granville is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 330th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1918148 births
- Best rank
- #330in 1880
- Since 1880
- 5,496people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,496 boys have been named Granville in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 148 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 148 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 73 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Granville | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 219 | |
| 1890s | 216 | |
| 1900s | 226 | |
| 1910s | 856 | |
| 1920s | 1,189 | |
| 1930s | 783 | |
| 1940s | 671 | |
| 1950s | 490 | |
| 1960s | 314 | |
| 1970s | 214 | |
| 1980s | 134 | |
| 1990s | 82 | |
| 2000s | 57 | |
| 2010s | 34 | |
| 2020s | 11 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Granville was the 490th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Granville
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Lymanpeak 1917
- Rufuspeak 1922
- Claudepeak 1920
- Frankpeak 1918
- Roscoepeak 1920
- Melvillepeak 1918
- Georgepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.