Granger
Masculine · “farm steward”
Granger is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,147 boys against 6 girls since 1880.
Granger is a farm bailiff — the man who ran the grange, from the Latin granum, grain, which also gives granary and grange itself.
How old is the name Granger?
Granger first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Granger is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,100 people named Granger are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Granger most popular?
Granger peaked in 2021, reaching #957 nationally. Today it ranks #1634, 677 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
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Where it comes from
From granum to Granger
The story of Granger
Grangers ran the outlying farms of monasteries and great estates, and the surname is common across England and France. The Grange movement of American farmers took the word in 1867. The surname entered American given-name use recently, part of the wider surname-name movement, and appears in the registers from the 2000s in current use.
Meaning
farm steward, granary keeper
From the Old French grangier, 'farm bailiff' or 'keeper of a granary', from grange and ultimately the Latin granum, 'grain'. It was an occupational surname of the ordinary kind. The word is documented and the meaning undisputed.
How the name formed
- granum
- grange
- grangier
- Granger
Related forms: Grangier · Grainger
Pronouncing Granger
GRAYN-jur
Two syllables, stress on the first. Granger and Grainger are said identically.
Nicknames for Granger
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1912
- Most boys named
- 2021234 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #957reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −34.4%103 in 2025, from 157
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Granger in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Grangier in French — related form
- Grainger in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Indiana, Ohio.
Grangers among us
people named Granger are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 16,583 born in 2025 was named Granger
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Keandre test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Granger's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Keandre climbed just as high around 1997, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Keandre's path sketches the road Granger is walking now.
Granger sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Granger is headed
Granger should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Granger beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Granger in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The farm-steward meaning is concrete and records a real medieval office.
- It belongs to a coherent family of English occupational surnames.
- Two firm syllables that carry well against any surname.
- A very well-known fictional character carries the surname.
- It reads unmistakably as a surname.
- It is very new as a given name.
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Masculine · #1634 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Grangers are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Granger are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Granger in 2025?
- Granger ranks #1634 among US boy names in 2025, with 103 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Granger?
- About 1 in every 16,583 US boys born in 2025 was named Granger — 103 in all.
- Will my child share the name Granger with classmates?
- Granger will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Granger
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