as a First Name
From one of the Norman baronial names that subsequently became aristocratic English surnames and are now used intermittently as boys' given names. This one derives from any of several places in Normandy named with Old French grand ‘large’ + ville ‘settlement’.
| 4,166th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 3,398
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Delaware
- has the most people named Granville per capita
- 1918
- marked the height of its popularity
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