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Greyson

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Greyson is ranked 127th among boys in 2024 (2,868 births). Its best rank was 77th, in 2018.

Rank in 2024
#127down 10 from 2023
Births in 2024
2,8680.17% of boys
Peak year
20174,848 births
Best rank
#77in 2018
Since 1965
57,770people given the name
Babies named Greyson, by year of birthboys
01.3k2.5k3.8k5k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

57,770 boys have been named Greyson in the United States since 1965, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 4,848 births — 0.26% 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 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 57%. It has spent 30 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 7 of them in the top 100.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Greyson
1960s17
1970s46
1980s234
1990s1,241
2000s4,726
2010s33,199
2020s18,307

In 2017, its biggest year

Greyson was the 80th 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 Greyson

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.