Grahame

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Grahame: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Grahame: Recorded since 1952, with a gap of 18 years, it reached #71 in 1955, and it was last ranked in 1996.

3registrars recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
45years from first to last
#71highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Grahame's record

Absent from every published list for 18 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Trend unknown

among boys in England and Wales · 1996

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 2 of the 14 years from 1979 to 1992.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1952–1996 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #81 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Highest recorded1952–1960
Highest recorded position: #71 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 1955 (recorded 1952–1960).
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Most recent1992
Most recently recorded at #267 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1992.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Grahame appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is New South Wales, Australia · Boys, which has ranked it in 9 years beginning in 1952, and has registered 666 births with the name.

Grahame across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Grahame's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#269 (1979)	#267 (1992)	#267 (1992)	2 of 14	10 (1979–1992)	5 (1979)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#81 (1952)	#71 (1955)	#94 (1960)	9 of 9	666 (1952–1960)	82 (1955)

Grahame appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1952 to 1996. Highest recorded position: #71 in New South Wales, Australia in 1955.

Grahame's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
1960	New South Wales, Australia	male	#94	68	Insufficient	Not yet available
1959	New South Wales, Australia	male	#88	73	Insufficient	Not yet available
1958	New South Wales, Australia	male	#97	64	Insufficient	Not yet available
1957	New South Wales, Australia	male	#96	67	Insufficient	Not yet available
1956	New South Wales, Australia	male	#77	79	Insufficient	Not yet available
1955	New South Wales, Australia	male	#71	82	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New South Wales, Australia	male	#78	80	Insufficient	Not yet available
1953	New South Wales, Australia	male	#84	74	Insufficient	Not yet available
1952	New South Wales, Australia	male	#81	79	Insufficient	Not yet available
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#267	5	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#269	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1952 and 1996, ranked in 12 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #71, first reached in 1955.

It held a top-100 place in 9 years, 9 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 82 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1955.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 18 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1979, and 44 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
9 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
4separate stretches the record falls into4 separate stretches →
18 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period10 to 19 years missing →
9years ranked inside the top 1005 to 9 years in the top 100 →
9 yearslongest unbroken top-100 run5 to 9 years running →
#2,020position in 1996, its most recent recorded year
44 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 41 years or more →
82births registered in its largest year, 195550 to 99 births →
1952first year inside a top 100First reached the top 100 in the 1950s →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Graeme · #18, 60y
Graham · #20, 73y
Grainne · #37, 61y
Grant · #13, 70y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Shannen · #77, 17y
Sue · #83, 16y
Rehmat · #93, 16y
Eala · #105, 14y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Lucia · #71, 65y
Magdalena · #71, 64y
Maxwell · #71, 40y
Eskil · #72, 65y

Grahame was ranked #71 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 1955. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Grahame and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Grahame without appearing here.

Grahame moved ahead of

Arthur Compare
In 1958 they stood at #97 and #93 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys; by 1959 that had become #88 and #99.

Moved ahead of Grahame

Daniel Compare
In 1956 they stood at #77 and #78 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys; by 1957 that had become #96 and #63.
Frank Compare
In 1956 they stood at #77 and #86 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys; by 1957 that had become #96 and #80.
Kim Compare
In 1952 they stood at #81 and #93 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys; by 1953 that had become #84 and #69.
Tony Compare
In 1955 they stood at #71 and #85 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys; by 1956 that had become #77 and #69.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1952 to 1996. Highest recorded position: #71 in New South Wales, Australia in 1955. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Grahame

Grahame at a glance

What stands out in Grahame's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Grahame across 2 official records

Grahame appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Grahame

Grahame and the names beside it

Grahame moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Grahame

Grahame at a glance

What stands out in Grahame's record

Grahame across 2 official records

Grahame appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Grahame

Grahame and the names beside it

Grahame moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Grahame