Grahàm
surname · Latin script
Grahàm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 201,159 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Named after Sylvester Graham.
- DMDominica1 in 316(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 760
- IEIreland≈1 in 940
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #399 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 579 (measured from records)
- 1 in 316 (inferred from the name graph)
201,159 people, 2010
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Graham in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Named after Sylvester Graham.
Cited for this meaning 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Grahàm is found
(measured from records)Grahàm counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #98 | 201,159 | 1 in 1.7K | 201K | Graham | 579 |
| GB United Kingdom | #63 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 3 | Graham | 358 |
| CA Canada | #66 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 5 | Graham | 282 |
| AU Australia | #75 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 69 | Graham | 268 |
| ZA South Africa | #538 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Graham | 130 |
| IE Ireland | #62 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 942 | — | Graham | 133 |
| JM Jamaica | #28 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 760 | — | Graham | 33 |
| DM Dominica | — | 235 | 1 in 316 | 235 | — | 6 |
201,159 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Grahàm mean, and where does it come from?
- Named after Sylvester Graham. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 6 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Grahàm?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 201 thousand people named Grahàm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled graham. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Grahàm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Grahàm is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 316 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Grahàm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 201,159 people named Grahàm in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Grahàm compared with other names?
- In the United States, Grahàm is the 98th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grah%C3%A0mThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Grahàm” — ranked 108th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.