Grayson
Grayson is ranked 48th among boys in 2024 (6,211 births). Its best rank was 32nd, in 2018.
- Rank in 2024
- #48down 4 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6,2110.36% of boys
- Peak year
- 20178,717 births
- Best rank
- #32in 2018
- Since 1905
- 127,278people given the name
The story in the numbers
123,139 boys have been named Grayson in the United States since 1905, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 8,717 births — 0.47% of all boys recorded that year.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 54%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 14 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,139 girls have also been given it, 3.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Grayson | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 12 | |
| 1910s | 189 | |
| 1920s | 273 | |
| 1930s | 212 | |
| 1940s | 241 | |
| 1950s | 247 | |
| 1960s | 282 | |
| 1970s | 393 | |
| 1980s | 1,094 | |
| 1990s | 4,733 | |
| 2000s | 14,167 | |
| 2010s | 66,398 | |
| 2020s | 34,898 |
In 2017, its biggest year
Grayson was the 34th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Grayson
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Henrikpeak 2018
- Kasepeak 2018
- Caysonpeak 2016
- Akselpeak 2018
- Declanpeak 2019
- Titanpeak 2017
- Greysonpeak 2017
- Rikerpeak 2015
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.