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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Greyson is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Vermont#124 · 1 in 369
- Wyoming#138 · 1 in 381
- North Dakota#140 · 1 in 443
- North Carolina#151 · 1 in 688
- Idaho#154 · 1 in 525
Best ever in a state: #19 in Wyoming, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | #124 | 5 | 1 in 369 |
| Wyoming | #138 | 5 | 1 in 381 |
| North Dakota | #140 | 8 | 1 in 443 |
| North Carolina | #151 | 75 | 1 in 688 |
| Idaho | #154 | 16 | 1 in 525 |
| Alabama | #158 | 36 | 1 in 649 |
| Michigan | #168 | 62 | 1 in 777 |
| Montana | #178 | 7 | 1 in 556 |
| Kansas | #179 | 24 | 1 in 682 |
| Virginia | #179 | 47 | 1 in 884 |
| South Carolina | #180 | 25 | 1 in 842 |
| Iowa | #182 | 21 | 1 in 728 |
| Connecticut | #184 | 16 | 1 in 917 |
| Utah | #185 | 32 | 1 in 690 |
| Missouri | #188 | 38 | 1 in 860 |
| Ohio | #189 | 64 | 1 in 946 |
| Tennessee | #191 | 42 | 1 in 837 |
| Washington | #191 | 45 | 1 in 791 |
| West Virginia | #191 | 10 | 1 in 806 |
| New Hampshire | #193 | 6 | 1 in 836 |
| Louisiana | #196 | 28 | 1 in 851 |
| Maine | #199 | 6 | 1 in 791 |
| Nebraska | #200 | 14 | 1 in 704 |
| Wisconsin | #208 | 30 | 1 in 925 |
| Oklahoma | #218 | 23 | 1 in 895 |
| Pennsylvania | #228 | 49 | 1 in 1,245 |
| Indiana | #232 | 32 | 1 in 1,130 |
| Georgia | #236 | 48 | 1 in 1,164 |
| Arkansas | #244 | 14 | 1 in 1,031 |
| Kentucky | #246 | 18 | 1 in 1,249 |
| Minnesota | #258 | 24 | 1 in 1,154 |
| Florida | #260 | 64 | 1 in 1,448 |
| Mississippi | #260 | 12 | 1 in 1,152 |
| Colorado | #261 | 25 | 1 in 1,100 |
| Oregon | #272 | 16 | 1 in 1,145 |
| Illinois | #281 | 46 | 1 in 1,518 |
| Texas | #290 | 113 | 1 in 1,581 |
| Massachusetts | #300 | 16 | 1 in 1,876 |
| New Mexico | #305 | 7 | 1 in 1,431 |
| Nevada | #316 | 9 | 1 in 1,519 |
| New York | #345 | 50 | 1 in 2,125 |
| Arizona | #371 | 18 | 1 in 2,071 |
| California | #393 | 88 | 1 in 2,656 |
| Maryland | #399 | 12 | 1 in 2,350 |
| New Jersey | #434 | 15 | 1 in 2,854 |
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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 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 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 65,837 of them was named Greyson, which outranked 74.3% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,974Yisel28
- #4,974Zabrina28
- #4,974Zharia28
- #5,108Greyson27
- #5,108Aariana27
- #5,108Adalyne27
- #5,108Adi27
- #5,247Abegail26
- #5,247Adalin26
- #5,247Adamary26
Tied with 138 names at #5,108; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 1,399 of them was named Greyson, which outranked 98.3% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.