Granville
About 5,501 American babies have been named Granville since 1880, most of them around 1918. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 1,500 Granvilles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Granville
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,501
- Estimated living today
- 1,500
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 490th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Granvilles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,501 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,500 are alive — 27 in every hundred. Roughly 60 of them are children and 770 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
The commune of France is from Old French Granville, Grandvilla, Grande Villa, Grandivilla, from grant (“grand”) + ville (“settlement”). The surname is of Norman baronial origin, from Grainville, a former commune in Normandy, from the given name Guarin + ville, meaning “Guarin's town”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Granvilles
- Edward Granville Browne (1861–1926)British Iranologist
- Granville Tailer Woods (1856–1910)American inventor
- Granville Bantock (1868–1946)British composer and conductor
- Granville Sharp (1735–1813)English abolitionist
- Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1815–1891)British Liberal statesman
- Granville Redmond (1871–1935)American artist
- Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford (1721–1803)British politician
- Ross Granville Harrison (1870–1959)American biologist
People named Granville with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Granville is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Granville is most concentrated in Kentucky (10.6×), Virginia (6.1×), Tennessee (5.4×), West Virginia (5.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Granville peaked:
Related names
Granville against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.