Given name & surname
Granville
“from the large village”
Granville is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “from the large village.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “from the large village.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
How it developed
From Old French Granville, from Proto-Germanic *warduz (“guard”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Granville through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,501
- 5,501 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 148 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,678 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,678 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 148 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,873 as a first name in 2020; 2,081 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Granville’s family of names
Granville has a related form in Grenville. Granville has a related form in Granvil. Granville has a related form in Granvile.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 15
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Granville
- Granville WoodsAmerican inventor1856–1910
- Granville BantockBritish composer and conductor (1868-1946)
- Granville SharpEnglish abolitionist (1735-1813)
- Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl GranvilleBritish Liberal statesman (1815-1891)
- Oral RobertsChristian religious leader, healing evangelist, author, educator, television personality1918–2009
- Granville RedmondAmerican artist (1871-1935)
- Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of StaffordBritish politician (1721-1803)
- Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl GranvilleBritish politician and diplomat (1773-1846)
- Granville BatesAmerican actor (1882-1940)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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