Meaning and history
Granville is an English given name transferred from a Norman surname and place name. It probably originated from Grainville in Normandy, whose second element is Old French ville, “settlement” or “estate”; the first element is uncertain, so translations such as “large town” are not securely established. The name has strong British political associations through Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, a nineteenth-century foreign secretary. American inventor and engineer Granville T. Woods is another notable bearer.
20062006: no US SSA record for this spelling
2007: no US SSA record for this spelling
2008: 6 births, rank #11,037
2009: 7 births, rank #9,864
2010: no US SSA record for this spelling
20112011: 5 births, rank #12,287
2012: no US SSA record for this spelling
2013: no US SSA record for this spelling
2014: 6 births, rank #10,717
2015: 5 births, rank #12,086
20162016: no US SSA record for this spelling
2017: 9 births, rank #8,140
2018: 9 births, rank #8,154
2019: no US SSA record for this spelling
2020: 6 births, rank #10,605
20212021: no US SSA record for this spelling
2022: no US SSA record for this spelling
2023: no US SSA record for this spelling
2024: 5 births, rank #12,349
20252025: 5 births, rank #12,008
Granville moved from #924 to #989 for boys between 1951 and 1952. Its highest annual birth count came in 1918, with 148 births.