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
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 4,754 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 7 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 60,231since 1965
Greyson over time
Rank among boys' names. 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 | #6,325 | 18 | #149 | 2,439 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | #127 | 2,874 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 | #117 | 3,076 |
| 2022 | #3,765 | 40 | #95 | 3,773 |
| 2021 | #4,507 | 30 | #84 | 4,225 |
| 2020 | #3,338 | 46 | #81 | 4,375 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 | #79 | 4,567 |
| 2018 | #3,396 | 46 | #77 | 4,754 |
| 2017 | #3,769 | 40 | #80 | 4,849 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 | #95 | 4,326 |
| 2015 | #3,429 | 46 | #111 | 3,607 |
| 2014 | #3,005 | 56 | #133 | 3,050 |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 | #149 | 2,649 |
| 2012 | #3,782 | 41 | #174 | 2,237 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | #200 | 1,794 |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 | #249 | 1,371 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #347 | 905 |
| 2008 | #6,130 | 22 | #381 | 807 |
| 2007 | #6,093 | 22 | #417 | 703 |
| 2006 | #5,545 | 24 | #499 | 520 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | #565 | 418 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 | #656 | 310 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #674 | 290 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #707 | 253 |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 | #668 | 272 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | #705 | 248 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 | #724 | 226 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #795 | 192 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 | #838 | 171 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #811 | 177 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | #959 | 134 |
| 1994 | — | #1,168 | 95 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,288 | 78 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,395 | 66 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #1,589 | 53 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #1,635 | 50 |
| 1989 | — | #1,705 | 45 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,731 | 40 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,896 | 33 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,917 | 31 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,866 | 31 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,529 | 19 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,071 | 14 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,606 | 10 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
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| 1974 | — | #3,558 | 9 | |
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| 1972 | — | #3,622 | 8 | |
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| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
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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.
See more about Greyson
- 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)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 2018 at #77 (4,754 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 7 yrs · run 2016–2022
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1995–2025
- 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
- 55.1% of all boys named Greyson (33,204) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 17 | #3,537 (1966) | #3,801 |
| 1970s | 46 | #3,558 (1974) | #4,272 |
| 1980s | 234 | #1,705 (1989) | #3,092 |
| 1990s | 1,242 | #724 (1999) | #1,120 |
| 2000s | 4,726 | #347 (2009) | #562 |
| 2010s | 33,204 | #77 (2018) | #135 |
| 2020s | 20,762 | #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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 252,421 of them was named Greyson, which outranked 32.9% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,122Zikeria8
- #10,122Zyan8
- #10,122Zyanna8
- #11,138Greyson7
- #11,138Aaliayah7
- #11,138Aaminah7
- #11,138Aanchal7
- #12,426Aailyah6
- #12,426Aaisha6
- #12,426Aajah6
Tied with 1,287 names at #11,138; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 9,955 of them was named Greyson, which outranked 93.0% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #790Brandyn193
- #790Herbert193
- #790Octavio193
- #795Greyson192
- #795Asa192
- #795Axel192
- #795Gino192
- #801Chaim191
- #801Destin191
- #801Jordy191
Tied with 5 names at #795; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.