# The name "Graham": How do you pronounce it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 5, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854 "2015-02-05T01:13:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/1 "2015-02-05T01:13:48Z")
> **[Plus-Size Model Ashley Graham's Ad Will Appear in Sports Illustrated Swim Issue](https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/plus-size-model-ashley-grahams-ad-will-appear-in-110078052408.html)** > > If Kate Upton’s Sports Illustrated cracked the mold when it comes to the typically sample-sized models who land near-naked magazine covers, Ashley Graham is about to shatter that already cracked mold. The 26-year-old will be... I caught the preceding link from [Yahoo.com](http://Yahoo.com), and it got me to recollecting my HS girlfriend, whose last name was Graham. When I was in HS, some friend of mine asked me who the babe was that I had been speaking to moments earlier. I saic “XXX Gra-ham.” (Gray-yum). Not so totally distinctive, but, it was 2 syllables. My friend said "You mean “Gram”. I said, “FU, her name is Gray-yum”. Later, I asked her. She, being under my love spell, said “It doesn’t matter. However you want.” Thanks, slut. Didn’t help a bit. So, how do you pronounce the name “Graham”? How have you heard it pronounced? I can think of Billy Graham, and I think he uses the 2 syllable method, but, other than my gf and him, I can’t recall knowing anybody with that last name. Thanks, hh ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/2 "2015-02-05T01:18:56Z")
Two syllables but more like gray-em, or gray-im, I guess would be closer. Graeme is pronounced the same way. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/3 "2015-02-05T01:22:47Z")
Gray-em. It’s my dad’s name, but spelt “Graeme”. He loves voice chatting with Americans as they try to figure out how to pronounce it. “Gremmie?”. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/4 "2015-02-05T01:32:48Z")
Because of a family when I was growing up insisting on it being that way ---- gray-ham. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/5 "2015-02-05T01:45:25Z")
Gram. Like the cracker. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/6 "2015-02-05T02:14:20Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Gram. Like the cracker. Yep. I’ve only heard people from overseas pronounce it any other way. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/7 "2015-02-05T02:16:12Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Gram. Like the cracker. That’s exactly what I tell people when they ask my son’s name. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/8 "2015-02-05T02:19:48Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Gram. Like the cracker. Ditto ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/9 "2015-02-05T02:34:13Z")
Gray’m (two syllables) ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/10 "2015-02-05T02:36:29Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > I saic “XXX Gra-ham.” (Gray-yum). Not so totally distinctive, but, it was 2 syllables. My friend said "You mean “Gram”. I said, “FU, her name is Gray-yum”. Later, I asked her. She, being under my love spell, said “It doesn’t matter. However you want.” Thanks, slut. Didn’t help a bit. Jeez man, it’s lucky you’re handsome! I have a brother by that name, and he tends to prefer the GRAYhm, nearly two syllable pronunciation. IIRC that preference originated with his desire to avoid being called Graham Cracker, the bane of his early childhood existence. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/11 "2015-02-05T02:44:22Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Gram. Like the cracker. This. I mean if she wants to say, "Oh thats a common mistake. Our family actually pronounces it “Gra-hooty-nob-pull-zoinkensteen” that’s on _her_. Paging Tony Dors\*-ett\*, Tony Dors\*-ett\* to name pretension… ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/12 "2015-02-05T02:48:49Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Gram. Like the cracker. Except those of us who pronounce it as gray-em also pronounce the cracker the same way: gray-em, gray-im, gray’m. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/13 "2015-02-05T02:51:42Z")
Gray-em. I’ve never heard of the “gram” pronunciation. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/14 "2015-02-05T03:01:34Z")
Midwesterner here. I say “gram” like the unit of mass. ---
**Author:** ![WreckingCrew](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wreckingcrew/32/4080_2.png) [@WreckingCrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WreckingCrew)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/15 "2015-02-05T03:11:14Z")
My son is Graham, pronounced gram. As was the sir name of his Scottish ancestors. I am already teaching him to pick up women in bars by saying he is the heir to the cracker fortune. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/16 "2015-02-05T03:19:15Z")
> [@WreckingCrew](#): > > My son is Graham, pronounced gram. As was the sir name of his Scottish ancestors. > > I am already teaching him to pick up women in bars by saying he is the heir to the cracker fortune. His Scottish ancestors would have pronounced it with two syllables. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/17 "2015-02-05T03:42:44Z")
Another vote for Gram. ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/18 "2015-02-05T03:50:39Z")
Silent “H” Like the cracker. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/19 "2015-02-05T03:54:03Z")
18 posts already and no one who pronounces it “throatwarbler mangrove”? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854/20 "2015-02-05T03:55:15Z")
Crackers aside (and I, an American, say “Gray-em crackers”), my observation is that in general, Americans tend to say “Gray-em” and Brits “Gram.” I know a Kiwi named “Graham,” and he definitely says the latter. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-graham-how-do-you-pronounce-it/711854.md?page=2)