Greysen
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #1,959 for boys in 2025, 78 births
Given to boys 91.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 218 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,833since 1993
Greysen 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #1,959 | 78 |
| 2024 | — | #1,878 | 85 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #1,681 | 101 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #1,250 | 156 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #1,064 | 201 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | #1,077 | 185 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #1,034 | 200 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #1,023 | 201 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #955 | 218 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | #967 | 213 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | #1,092 | 178 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | #1,184 | 157 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | #1,297 | 133 |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | #1,419 | 117 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #1,344 | 126 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #1,517 | 107 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #2,143 | 63 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | #2,039 | 68 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #2,643 | 46 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #2,881 | 39 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #3,528 | 27 |
| 2004 | — | #4,129 | 21 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,271 | 14 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,502 | 17 | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | — | #4,389 | 17 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,317 | 12 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,960 | 12 | |
| 1996 | — | #6,496 | 8 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
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| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Greysen! It came in at #8,700, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1993–1994, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Greysen is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Iowa#441 · 1 in 2,052
- Utah#494 · 1 in 2,438
- Ohio#690 · 1 in 4,776
- Minnesota#695 · 1 in 4,445
- New York#760 · 1 in 5,632
Best ever in a state: #367 in Nebraska, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #441 | 7 | 1 in 2,052 |
| Utah | #494 | 8 | 1 in 2,438 |
| Ohio | #690 | 12 | 1 in 4,776 |
| Minnesota | #695 | 6 | 1 in 4,445 |
| New York | #760 | 17 | 1 in 5,632 |
| Michigan | #801 | 8 | 1 in 5,737 |
| Pennsylvania | #850 | 8 | 1 in 7,158 |
| Arizona | #864 | 5 | 1 in 6,838 |
| New Jersey | #962 | 5 | 1 in 8,034 |
| Florida | #1,043 | 11 | 1 in 8,713 |
| North Carolina | #1,139 | 5 | 1 in 10,032 |
| Texas | #1,239 | 14 | 1 in 12,491 |
| California | #1,301 | 14 | 1 in 14,751 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Greysen
- 81 spots since 2024 (#1,878 → #1,959)
- 882 spots since 2020 (#1,077 → #1,959)
- 867 spots since 2015 (#1,092 → #1,959)
- Biggest jump: 125 spots in 2016 (#1,092 → #967)
- Biggest drop: 68 spots in 2018 (#955 → #1,023)
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 2017 at #955 (218 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2016–2017
- Highest: 1 in 8,491 boys born in 2017 were named Greysen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,898 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 58.2% of all boys named Greysen (1,650) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 53 | #4,960 (1997) | #6,518 |
| 2000s | 324 | #2,039 (2008) | #3,719 |
| 2010s | 1,650 | #955 (2017) | #1,183 |
| 2020s | 806 | #1,064 (2021) | #1,485 |
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.
Greysen in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 141,756 of them was named Greysen, which outranked 52.5% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,146Zonnique13
- #8,146Zuriyah13
- #8,146Zyaira13
- #8,617Greysen12
- #8,617Aaila12
- #8,617Aalina12
- #8,617Aamilah12
- #9,151Aaima11
- #9,151Aalyah11
- #9,151Abbigayle11
Tied with 533 names at #8,617; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 9,036 of them was named Greysen, which outranked 92.8% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).