Given name & surname
Grahame
“from the gravelled area; from the gray home”
Grahame is a variant of Graham. One English interpretation is “from the gravelled area; from the gray home.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Grahame is a variant of Graham. One English interpretation is “from the gravelled area; from the gray home.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Grahame is a variant of Graham. Graham has been associated with Scottish and Old English naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Grahame through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1978. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 202 as a first name in 2020; 261 as a surname in 2000.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Grahame’s family of names
Grahame has a related form in Graham.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Grahame
- Grahame CheneyAustralian boxerborn 1969
- Grahame BilbyNew Zealand association footballerborn 1941
- Grahame ChevalierSouth African cricketer (1937-2017)
- Grahame ThomasAustralian cricketerborn 1938
- Grahame MorrisBritish politician (born 1961)
- Grahame ClintonEnglish cricketer (born 1953)
- Grahame CorlingAustralian cricketerborn 1941
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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