Grant

What Grant means

Means “big, large”

From Scottish Gaelic Grannd, from Anglo-Norman graunt (“big, large”), from Old French grant, from Latin grandis.

Source: Wiktionary, “Grant” (revision 92927027), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Grant?

US: Falling: down from #177 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1997, when 3,315 boys got the name (#115 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,098 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 6,547 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NH (4.44 per 1,000 boys), ME (3.12 per 1,000 boys), WV (2.44 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Grant is #228 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Grant were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Grand5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Grant

Boys

• Hunter#130From the word “hunter”^*
• Chandler#753Editor’s note Used for both: 54% of US babies named Chandler in 2025 were boys
• Conner#864Variant of Connor, meaning “lover of hounds”^*
• Gage#973Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 2,939 babies; 235 in 2025
• Keaton#769possibly “hedge, enclosure + farmstead, settlement”^*
• Cole#182“coal, coal-black”^*

For a sister

• Bailey#208“outer castle wall”^*
• Cassidy#541“descendant of Caiside”^*
• Mackenzie#228“son, descendant + of Coinneach”^*
• Mckenzie#576Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2000, with 2,528 babies; 517 in 2025
• Clare#924“bright, shining, clear”^*
• Sydney#348Variant of Sidney, meaning “wide + island”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Grant’s. Rank is US 2025.