boys:
87 births since 2012
#4499 (2nd percentile)
overall:
87 births since 2012
#7652 (1st percentile)
The name Grimm is the #7,652 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 87 recorded births since 2012. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,499 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 87 births since 2012.
Grimm first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2012 (first recorded for boys in 2012). Birth data for Grimm is available in 10 out of the 12 years between 2012 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Grimm reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #909) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Despite a peak around 2016, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Grimm ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 80.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Grimm".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Grimm is pronounced as grihm, which has 1 syllables.
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