girls:
724 births since 1891
#4992 (13th percentile)
boys:
50.7k births since 1887
#495 (89th percentile)
overall:
51.5k births since 1887
#1060 (86th percentile)
The name Grady is the #1,060 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 51,456 recorded births since 1887. This represents the 86.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #495 (89.2% percentile) for all time with 50,732 births since 1887. For girls, it ranks #4,992 (12.6% percentile) for all time with 724 births since 1891.
Grady first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1887 (1887 for boys and 1891 for girls).
The name Grady has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Grady reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 69.4% percentile (ranked #278) with 549 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 717 births per million (ranked 46.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Grady ranks #367 for boys (59.8% percentile) with 437 births per million, which is 61.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Grady reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #587) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 36 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Grady ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 17.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Grady".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Grady is pronounced as GRAY-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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