Greyson

#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births · #149 for boys in 2025, 2,439 births
Given to boys 98.7% of the time

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Peak · boys
#77
2018 · 4,754 births
Debut · boys
1965
5 births
In top 100 · boys
7 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · boys
60,231
since 1965

Greyson over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201996peak #77, 2018boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#6,32518#1492,439
2024#7,59414#1272,874
2023#4,87327#1173,076
2022#3,76540#953,773
2021#4,50730#844,225
2020#3,33846#814,375
2019#4,54630#794,567
2018#3,39646#774,754
2017#3,76940#804,849
2016#3,92338#954,326
2015#3,42946#1113,607
2014#3,00556#1333,050
2013#3,40446#1492,649
2012#3,78241#1742,237
2011#7,11817#2001,794
2010#5,10827#2491,371
2009#6,54420#347905
2008#6,13022#381807
2007#6,09322#417703
2006#5,54524#499520
2005#7,89114#565418
2004#5,96920#656310
2003#9,04811#674290
2002#6,69816#707253
2001#6,32217#668272
2000#7,15814#705248
1999#6,48415#724226
1998#11,1387#795192
1997#6,48314#838171
1996#11,8076#811177
1995#5,22118#959134
1994—#1,16895
1993—#1,28878
1992—#1,39566
1991#13,1475#1,58953
1990#12,9585#1,63550
1989—#1,70545
1988—#1,73140
1987—#1,89633
1986—#1,91731
1985—#1,86631
1984—#2,52919
1983—#3,07114
1982—#3,69211
1981—#6,2625
1980—#6,2505
1979—#5,3556
1978—#4,5547
1977—#3,60610
1976—#4,9356
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1972—#3,6228
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1966—#3,5376
1965—#3,9305
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First appearance
1965

The first year at least five boys were named Greyson! It came in at #3,930, and was given to 5 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1967–1968, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

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Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 22 spots since 2024 (#127 → #149)
  • 68 spots since 2020 (#81 → #149)
  • 38 spots since 2015 (#111 → #149)
  • Biggest jump: 209 spots in 1995 (#1,168 → #959)
  • Biggest drop: 39 spots in 2002 (#668 → #707)
Rise & fade · boys
53 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1965
  • Peaked 2018 at #77 (4,754 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 100 for 7 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 7 yrs · run 2016–2022
  • Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1995–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 382
  • Highest: 1 in 382 boys born in 2017 were named Greyson (0.26%)
  • Latest: 1 in 700 boys born in 2025 (0.14%)
  • Its best rank, #77 in 2018, was only 1 in 382 (0.26%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 55.1% of all boys named Greyson (33,204) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s17#3,537 (1966)#3,801
1970s46#3,558 (1974)#4,272
1980s234#1,705 (1989)#3,092
1990s1,242#724 (1999)#1,120
2000s4,726#347 (2009)#562
2010s33,204#77 (2018)#135
2020s20,762#81 (2020)#109

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.

Greyson in 1996

girls
#11,807
6 births · 1 in 292,168 girls
boys
#811
177 births · 1 in 10,702 boys

Top girls' names in 1996

  1. #1Emily25,150
  2. #2Jessica24,201
  3. #3Ashley23,678
  4. #4Sarah21,048
  5. #5Samantha20,552
  6. #6Taylor19,155
  7. #7Hannah18,596
  8. #8Alexis16,592
  9. #9Rachel16,121
  10. #10Elizabeth16,003
  11. #11,807Greyson6

Top boys' names in 1996

  1. #1Michael38,373
  2. #2Matthew32,077
  3. #3Jacob31,925
  4. #4Christopher30,904
  5. #5Joshua29,175
  6. #6Nicholas27,724
  7. #7Tyler26,956
  8. #8Brandon25,847
  9. #9Austin25,663
  10. #10Andrew25,244
  11. #811Greyson177
More about 1996

girls

1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 292,168 of them was named Greyson, which outranked 25.7% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Greyson
  1. #10,567Zuly7
  2. #10,567Zury7
  3. #10,567Zyanya7
  4. #11,807Greyson6
  5. #11,807Aalayah6
  6. #11,807Aamna6
  7. #11,807Aarthi6
  8. #13,518Aaleeyah5
  9. #13,518Abbiegail5
  10. #13,518Abigahil5

Tied with 1,710 names at #11,807; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1995
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,167Odalys#2,845 → #678
  2. ↑ 1,531Tamia#2,028 → #497
  3. ↑ 1,524Jaycie#2,486 → #962
  4. ↑ 1,486Odalis#2,394 → #908
  5. ↑ 1,430Zaria#2,155 → #725
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,558Unknown#865 → #2,423
  2. ↓ 723Iridian#886 → #1,609
  3. ↓ 435Selene#964 → #1,399
  4. ↓ 394Salina#838 → #1,232
  5. ↓ 339Chelsi#697 → #1,036

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 10,702 of them was named Greyson, which outranked 92.3% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Greyson
  1. #808Anderson178
  2. #808Robin178
  3. #808Ulysses178
  4. #811Greyson177
  5. #811Dylon177
  6. #811Gunner177
  7. #811Hernan177
  8. #817Dan176
  9. #817Dillion176
  10. #817Fidel176

Tied with 5 names at #811; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1995
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,398Keyshawn#2,178 → #780
  2. ↑ 1,171Jair#2,055 → #884
  3. ↑ 1,065Kordell#2,055 → #990
  4. ↑ 856Shemar#1,758 → #902
  5. ↑ 686Nasir#1,648 → #962
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,075Unknown#665 → #1,740
  2. ↓ 649Rashaan#937 → #1,586
  3. ↓ 633Savon#966 → #1,599
  4. ↓ 514Latrell#966 → #1,480
  5. ↓ 351Rakeem#970 → #1,321

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1996 →