Graeme

#3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births

Peak · boys
2012 · 201 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,876
since 1933

Graeme over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Graeme has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201933peak #989, 2012boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#3,94927
2024#3,69330
2023#4,45623
2022#3,15138
2021#2,91842
2020#2,13965
2019#2,21363
2018#2,18963
2017#1,80983
2016#1,456118
2015#1,287138
2014#1,065184
2013#999196
2012#989201
2011#1,257137
2010#1,558102
2009#2,28757
2008#2,34555
2007#2,56448
2006#2,69843
2005#2,56743
2004#2,64340
2003#2,12852
2002#2,47040
2001#2,34642
2000#2,17546
1999#2,46236
1998#1,84953
1997#2,09642
1996#2,25436
1995#1,78249
1994#2,30734
1993#1,93342
1992#2,04638
1991#2,22732
1990#1,90940
1989#2,20631
1988#2,59922
1987#2,27225
1986#2,36023
1985#2,17125
1984#1,88529
1983#2,14024
1982#2,05926
1981#3,22113
1980#2,44420
1979#2,56818
1978#3,61410
1977#2,45818
1976#3,26411
1975#2,06522
1974#3,12011
1973#4,5056
1972#2,81912
1971#2,81312
1970#2,73912
1969#3,5957
1968#3,1078
1967#3,9665
1966#3,2497
1965#3,9305
1964
1963#2,53911
1962#4,0335
1961#3,3567
1960#3,6656
1959
1958#3,5596
1957#3,2577
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1955#3,8865
1954#3,8275
1953
1952#3,7345
1951#3,7145
1950#3,3296
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1945#2,9966
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1937#3,5185
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First appearance
1933

The first year at least five boys were named Graeme! It came in at #3,642, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1933–1937, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Graeme
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 256 spots since 2024 (#3,693#3,949)
  • 1,810 spots since 2020 (#2,139#3,949)
  • 2,662 spots since 2015 (#1,287#3,949)
  • Biggest jump: 268 spots in 2012 (#1,257#989)
  • Biggest drop: 66 spots in 2014 (#999#1,065)
Rise & fade · boys
79 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1933
  • Peaked 2012 at #989 (201 births)
  • Births halved by 2017, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2012–2013
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,438
  • Highest: 1 in 9,438 boys born in 2012 were named Graeme (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 63,262 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 44.7% of all boys named Graeme (1,285) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s17#2,868 (1938)#3,343
1940s11#2,996 (1945)#3,261
1950s39#3,257 (1957)#3,615
1960s61#2,539 (1963)#3,493
1970s132#2,065 (1975)#2,997
1980s238#1,885 (1984)#2,336
1990s402#1,782 (1995)#2,087
2000s466#2,128 (2003)#2,422
2010s1,285#989 (2012)#1,482
2020s225#2,139 (2020)#3,384

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Graeme in 1933

boys
#3,642
5 births · 1 in 198,305 boys

Top boys' names in 1933

  1. #1Robert54,221
  2. #2James51,112
  3. #3John46,224
  4. #4William39,049
  5. #5Richard31,331
  6. #6Charles28,991
  7. #7Donald28,450
  8. #8George18,356
  9. #9Joseph17,162
  10. #10Thomas16,508
  11. #3,642Graeme5
More about 1933

boys

991,524 boys got a published name in 1933; 1 in 198,305 of them was named Graeme, which outranked 12.4% of the 4,156 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Graeme
  1. #3,268Windsor6
  2. #3,268Ysmael6
  3. #3,268Zoltan6
  4. #3,642Graeme5
  5. #3,642Abbie5
  6. #3,642Adair5
  7. #3,642Adams5

Tied with 514 names at #3,642; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1932
Risers
  1. 553Neville#1,548#995
  2. 401Cordell#1,286#885
  3. 381Hamilton#1,286#905
  4. 375Delano#677#302
  5. 313Jan#937#624
Fallers
  1. 568Hoover#793#1,361
  2. 541Porfirio#915#1,456
  3. 424Rosendo#937#1,361
  4. 381Alfonzo#821#1,202
  5. 368Hillard#862#1,230

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1933