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Graydon

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Graydon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 763rd, in 1905.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
130.00% of boys
Peak year
2010100 births
Best rank
#763in 1905
Since 1890
3,492people given the name
Babies named Graydon, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

3,492 boys have been named Graydon in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2010, with 100 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 2010s alone account for 21%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Graydon
1890s5
1900s34
1910s226
1920s364
1930s277
1940s227
1950s203
1960s150
1970s111
1980s145
1990s263
2000s609
2010s729
2020s149

In 2010, its biggest year

Graydon was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2010 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Jayden and William. See all of 2010.

Names that rose and fell with Graydon

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.