Given name
Grainne
“one who loves and is loved”
Grainne is used as a given name. One Irish interpretation is “one who loves and is loved.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Irish interpretation is “one who loves and is loved.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Irish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Grainne through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 92
- 0 boys · 92 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 9 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 girls is 6 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 310 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Grainne’s family of names
Grainne has a related form in Graene. Grainne has a related form in Graenia. Grainne has a related form in Graenne.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Graeniavariant
- Graenevariant
- Graennevariant
- Grayniavariant
- Graynevariant
- Graynnevariant
- Graniavariant
- Grainniavariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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