Griffen
#5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 110 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,808since 1985
Griffen over time
Rank among boys' names. Griffen has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #3,712 | 30 |
| 2022 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | #3,242 | 36 |
| 2020 | #3,918 | 26 |
| 2019 | #3,794 | 28 |
| 2018 | #3,891 | 27 |
| 2017 | #3,193 | 36 |
| 2016 | #3,681 | 29 |
| 2015 | #3,149 | 36 |
| 2014 | #3,787 | 27 |
| 2013 | #3,060 | 36 |
| 2012 | #2,380 | 53 |
| 2011 | #2,478 | 50 |
| 2010 | #2,169 | 61 |
| 2009 | #2,050 | 67 |
| 2008 | #1,969 | 72 |
| 2007 | #1,995 | 70 |
| 2006 | #1,919 | 70 |
| 2005 | #2,008 | 62 |
| 2004 | #1,653 | 78 |
| 2003 | #1,497 | 86 |
| 2002 | #1,474 | 86 |
| 2001 | #1,514 | 80 |
| 2000 | #1,361 | 93 |
| 1999 | #1,174 | 110 |
| 1998 | #1,338 | 89 |
| 1997 | #1,294 | 88 |
| 1996 | #1,434 | 72 |
| 1995 | #2,253 | 35 |
| 1994 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #5,785 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Griffen! It came in at #5,785, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1992, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
See more about Griffen
- 44 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #5,399)
- 1,481 spots since 2020 (#3,918 → #5,399)
- 2,250 spots since 2015 (#3,149 → #5,399)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 1999 at #1,174 (110 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,456 boys born in 1999 were named Griffen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.3% of all boys named Griffen (764) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 36 | #4,853 (1986) | #5,538 |
| 1990s | 472 | #1,174 (1999) | #3,277 |
| 2000s | 764 | #1,361 (2000) | #1,744 |
| 2010s | 383 | #2,169 (2010) | #3,158 |
| 2020s | 153 | #3,242 (2021) | #4,285 |
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.
Griffen in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 24,286 of them was named Griffen, which outranked 87.7% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,502Payne81
- #1,502Reggie81
- #1,502Tim81
- #1,514Griffen80
- #1,514Erwin80
- #1,514Ishaan80
- #1,514Ismail80
- #1,527Colter79
- #1,527Dustyn79
- #1,527Edmond79
Tied with 12 names at #1,514; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.