Graeme
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Graeme is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In New Zealand it is the 71st most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Alternative spelling of Graham; recorded in Northern Ireland.
- NZNew Zealand1 in 923◐
- AUAustralia1 in 1.4K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.7K ●
- Sources
- 313 ●
- 1 in 96K ◐
across 7 countries
142K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
Alternative spelling of Graham; recorded in Northern Ireland.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | #348 | 81,803 | 46K rec. | — | 4 | Graeme | 224 |
| AU Australia | #260 | 81,386 | 58K rec. | — | 79 | Graeme | 239 |
| NZ New Zealand | #71 | 9,276 | 6K rec. | — | 15 | Graeme | 135 |
| CA Canada | — | 5,548 | 3.5K rec. | — | 1 | Graeme | 161 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 3,747 | 3.3K rec. | — | — | Graeme | 105 |
| US United States | — | 3,482 | 23K rec. | 1 in 96K | 3.5K | Graeme | 313 |
| IE Ireland | #554 | 432 | 275 rec. | — | — | Graeme | 75 |
| IT Italy | — | 181 | 130 rec. | — | — | Graeme | 18 |
| JP Japan | — | 86 | 75 rec. | — | — | Graeme | 24 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 75 | 46 rec. | — | — | Graeme | 46 |
| EG Egypt | — | 70 | 66 rec. | — | — | Graeme | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | 67 | 54 rec. | — | 62 | Graeme | 22 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English199K90%
- Spanish2.4K1%
- Chinese2.1K1%
- German2K1%
- French1.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 199,439 | 90% |
| Spanish | 2,352 | 1% |
| Chinese | 2,052 | 1% |
| German | 1,984 | 1% |
| French | 1,744 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Graeme is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, From the gravelly place or homestead common; Scottish surname
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In English, A surname from Old English, a less common spelling of Graham.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, ‘person from Grantham’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1933 | 5 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1938 | 7 |
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1950 | 6 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1957 | 7 |
| 1958 | 6 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1961 | 7 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 11 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1966 | 7 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 8 |
| 1969 | 7 |
| 1970 | 12 |
| 1971 | 12 |
| 1972 | 12 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1974 | 11 |
| 1975 | 22 |
| 1976 | 11 |
| 1977 | 18 |
| 1978 | 10 |
| 1979 | 18 |
| 1980 | 20 |
| 1981 | 13 |
| 1982 | 26 |
| 1983 | 24 |
| 1984 | 29 |
| 1985 | 25 |
| 1986 | 23 |
| 1987 | 25 |
| 1988 | 22 |
| 1989 | 31 |
| 1990 | 40 |
| 1991 | 32 |
| 1992 | 38 |
| 1993 | 42 |
| 1994 | 34 |
| 1995 | 49 |
| 1996 | 36 |
| 1997 | 42 |
| 1998 | 53 |
| 1999 | 36 |
| 2000 | 46 |
| 2001 | 42 |
| 2002 | 40 |
| 2003 | 52 |
| 2004 | 40 |
| 2005 | 43 |
| 2006 | 43 |
| 2007 | 48 |
| 2008 | 55 |
| 2009 | 57 |
| 2010 | 102 |
| 2011 | 137 |
| 2012 | 201 |
| 2013 | 196 |
| 2014 | 184 |
| 2015 | 138 |
| 2016 | 118 |
| 2017 | 83 |
| 2018 | 63 |
| 2019 | 63 |
| 2020 | 65 |
| 2021 | 42 |
| 2022 | 38 |
| 2023 | 23 |
| 2024 | 30 |
| 2025 | 27 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 77 years between 1933–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Graeme Gibsonb. 1934CACanadian novelist (1934–2019)
- Graeme Cliffordb. 1942AUAustralian film director and film editor
- Graeme Sounessb. 1953GBScottish association football player and manager
- Graeme Revellb. 1955NZNew Zealand musician, composer (b. 1955)
- Graeme Sharpb. 1960GBScottish footballer and manager
- Graeme Obreeb. 1965GBScottish cyclist
- Michael Goveb. 1967GBnot in their usual nameBritish politician (born 1967)
- Graeme Le Sauxb. 1968GBEnglish footballer (born 1968)
- Graeme Dottb. 1977GBScottish snooker player
- Graeme Smithb. 1981ZASouth African cricketer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 43 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 458 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Graeme?
- We estimate roughly 3.7 thousand people bear Graeme (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Graeme have the most bearers?
- Graeme is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled graeme.
- How common is Graeme compared with other names?
- In the United Kingdom, Graeme is the 348th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
- Is Graeme a male or female name?
- Graeme is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Graeme mean?
- Recorded meaning: Alternative spelling of Graham; recorded in Northern Ireland.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Graeme” — the 348th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.