Graycen
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · #4,050 for boys in 2025, 26 births
Given to girls 55.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 53 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 786since 1995
Graycen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | #4,050 | 26 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #3,896 | 28 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 | #4,112 | 26 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | #5,573 | 22 | #3,180 | 37 |
| 2020 | #3,778 | 38 | #1,731 | 89 |
| 2019 | #4,343 | 32 | #1,816 | 84 |
| 2018 | #5,315 | 24 | #3,301 | 34 |
| 2017 | #3,697 | 41 | #3,006 | 39 |
| 2016 | #3,100 | 53 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2015 | #3,389 | 47 | #4,080 | 25 |
| 2014 | #3,585 | 43 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 | #3,189 | 34 |
| 2012 | #3,419 | 47 | #3,714 | 28 |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 | #5,200 | 17 |
| 2010 | #4,494 | 32 | #3,633 | 29 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #5,279 | 27 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #4,811 | 29 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | — | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | — | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | — | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Graycen! It came in at #11,783, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1996, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
See more about Graycen
- 1,430 spots since 2024 (#6,932 → #8,362)
- 4,584 spots since 2020 (#3,778 → #8,362)
- 4,973 spots since 2015 (#3,389 → #8,362)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2016 at #3,100 (53 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 33,434 girls born in 2016 were named Graycen (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 50.3% of all girls named Graycen (395) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2017, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 36 | #8,805 (1999) | #11,009 |
| 2000s | 225 | #4,688 (2001) | #5,751 |
| 2010s | 395 | #3,100 (2016) | #3,920 |
| 2020s | 130 | #3,778 (2020) | #6,083 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Graycen in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 33,434 of them was named Graycen, which outranked 83.6% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,060Xitlaly54
- #3,060Yessenia54
- #3,060Zoelle54
- #3,100Graycen53
- #3,100Allegra53
- #3,100Amairany53
- #3,100Amoni53
- #3,139Addeline52
- #3,139Alaa52
- #3,139Aleya52
Tied with 38 names at #3,100; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 61,217 of them was named Graycen, which outranked 75.2% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,441Welles32
- #3,441Wellington32
- #3,441Zedekiah32
- #3,524Graycen31
- #3,524Aaren31
- #3,524Aarin31
- #3,524Aiven31
- #3,596Abisai30
- #3,596Advay30
- #3,596Amire30
Tied with 71 names at #3,524; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.