Entry № 460 · Scottish origin

Graham Graham — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GRAY-əm /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Gravelly homestead (Heather Graham; modern unisex)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "gravelly homestead (heather graham; modern unisex)".

Graham is from the Old English grand-hām (gravelly homestead) — historically a male Scottish surname now used as a unisex given name. Bob Graham — male; former Governor of Florida. Sir James Graham (1792-1861) — British politician.

Gravelly homestead (Heather Graham; modern unisex) — a Scottish name.

The name in its native script.

Graham
Transliteration
Graham
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡreɪ.əm /
Root
—
Grammatical form
—

Where Graham stands.

Graham does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Grahams before her.

Real people
Heather Graham
American actress.
born 1970
Billy Graham
American Christian evangelist.
1918 – 2018
In fiction
Graham
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Graham.

The number behind Graham.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Graham reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.