Grey
#4,460 for girls in 2025, 31 births · #1,014 for boys in 2025, 222 births
Given to boys 85.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 362 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,056since 1913
Grey 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 | #4,460 | 31 | #1,014 | 222 |
| 2024 | #3,081 | 52 | #873 | 276 |
| 2023 | #3,274 | 49 | #863 | 276 |
| 2022 | #2,928 | 57 | #759 | 333 |
| 2021 | #2,233 | 83 | #717 | 362 |
| 2020 | #2,500 | 69 | #777 | 302 |
| 2019 | #2,538 | 69 | #725 | 335 |
| 2018 | #2,557 | 68 | #723 | 331 |
| 2017 | #2,508 | 71 | #732 | 327 |
| 2016 | #2,697 | 64 | #757 | 321 |
| 2015 | #2,501 | 72 | #916 | 234 |
| 2014 | #2,290 | 81 | #909 | 236 |
| 2013 | #3,513 | 44 | #981 | 204 |
| 2012 | #3,644 | 43 | #1,040 | 185 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 | #1,344 | 126 |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | #1,525 | 106 |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 | #1,314 | 132 |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 | #1,452 | 113 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 | #1,527 | 103 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | #1,638 | 87 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #2,365 | 49 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #1,804 | 69 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #2,006 | 57 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #1,998 | 55 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | #2,151 | 48 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #2,298 | 42 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #1,903 | 51 |
| 1998 | — | #2,157 | 42 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #1,964 | 46 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #1,872 | 48 |
| 1995 | — | #1,955 | 43 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #1,822 | 47 |
| 1993 | — | #2,091 | 38 | |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #2,834 | 24 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #2,295 | 31 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #2,049 | 36 |
| 1989 | — | #2,784 | 22 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,765 | 20 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,201 | 15 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,290 | 24 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,942 | 16 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,824 | 16 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,912 | 15 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,221 | 13 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,256 | 13 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,601 | 16 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,428 | 10 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,946 | 12 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,857 | 12 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,323 | 16 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,125 | 18 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,549 | 12 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,809 | 19 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,784 | 9 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,987 | 16 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,040 | 16 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,115 | 15 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,117 | 15 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,823 | 20 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,033 | 16 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,177 | 14 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,952 | 17 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,361 | 12 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,505 | 6 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,531 | 10 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,246 | 12 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,606 | 9 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,326 | 11 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,096 | 7 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,534 | 9 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,862 | 7 | |
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,719 | 8 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,973 | 7 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | #2,904 | 9 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,517 | 7 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,489 | 7 | |
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | — | #2,543 | 11 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
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| 1913 | — | #2,273 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Grey! It came in at #2,273, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1915, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Grey
- 141 spots since 2024 (#873 → #1,014)
- 237 spots since 2020 (#777 → #1,014)
- 98 spots since 2015 (#916 → #1,014)
- Biggest jump: 159 spots in 2016 (#916 → #757)
- Biggest drop: 141 spots in 2025 (#873 → #1,014)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 2021 at #717 (362 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2013–2024
- Highest: 1 in 4,833 boys born in 2021 were named Grey (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,694 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 39.7% of all boys named Grey (2,405) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 30 | #2,273 (1913) | #2,969 |
| 1920s | 55 | #2,904 (1926) | #3,548 |
| 1930s | 39 | #2,719 (1935) | #3,123 |
| 1940s | 66 | #2,326 (1948) | #2,932 |
| 1950s | 102 | #1,952 (1957) | #2,805 |
| 1960s | 140 | #1,809 (1967) | #2,314 |
| 1970s | 121 | #2,125 (1970) | #3,150 |
| 1980s | 166 | #2,290 (1986) | #2,968 |
| 1990s | 406 | #1,822 (1994) | #2,094 |
| 2000s | 755 | #1,314 (2009) | #1,855 |
| 2010s | 2,405 | #723 (2018) | #965 |
| 2020s | 1,771 | #717 (2021) | #834 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Grey in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 31,158 of them was named Grey, which outranked 82.6% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,047Wrynlee53
- #3,047Yesly53
- #3,047Yumi53
- #3,081Grey52
- #3,081Adaly52
- #3,081Adleigh52
- #3,081Airam52
- #3,119Aaliya51
- #3,119Aine51
- #3,119Aizal51
Tied with 37 names at #3,081; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 6,242 of them was named Grey, which outranked 93.9% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).