# Granville (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/granville/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “grand”, “settlement”, “guarin's town”, “guard” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,501 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,501 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

The commune of France is from Old French Granville, Grandvilla, Grande Villa, Grandivilla, from grant (“grand”) + ville (“settlement”). The surname is of Norman baronial origin, from Grainville, a former commune in Normandy, from the given name Guarin + ville, meaning “Guarin's town”. Guarin ultimately derives from Proto-Germanic *warduz (“guard”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 9 | 7,114 |
| 2002 | 8 | 7,902 |
| 2003 | 11 | 6,406 |
| 2004 | 7 | 9,263 |
| 2005 | 9 | 7,865 |
| 2008 | 6 | 11,545 |
| 2009 | 7 | 10,217 |
| 2011 | 5 | 12,957 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,190 |
| 2015 | 5 | 12,735 |
| 2017 | 9 | 8,384 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8,389 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,076 |
| 2024 | 5 | 12,948 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,678 |

## People named Granville

- Edward Granville Browne, British Iranologist (1862–1926)
- Granville Tailer Woods, American inventor
- Granville Bantock, British composer and conductor (1868-1946)
- Granville Sharp, English abolitionist (1735-1813)
- Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, British Liberal statesman (1815-1891)
- Granville Redmond, American artist (1871-1935)
- Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, British politician (1721-1803)
- Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (1870-1959)
- Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville, British politician and diplomat (1773-1846)
- Granville Bates, American actor (1882-1940)
- Granville Hicks, American writer (1901–1982)
- George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, British diplomat, politician and landowner (1758-1833)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.