Graison
Graison was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,852 among boys’ names; 467 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Graison by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Graison?
#7,852 among boys’ names, 2025
Graison fell from #4,207 in 2015 to #7,852 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.5 to 5.9 per million.
40 babies in 2010, the peak
Graison peaked in 2010, when 40 babies were given it (32 boys, #3,398 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,852 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,979 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,045 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,507 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,533 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,315 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,224 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,165 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,365 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,033 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,207 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,936 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,102 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,177 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,462 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,398 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,642 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,591 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,139 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,602 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,296 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,415 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,007 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,685 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,169 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Graison a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 467 Americans recorded as Graison, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Graison: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Graison, and how old are they?
An estimated 463 Americans named Graison and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 403 people named Graison (69 women and girls, 334 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 374 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Graison?
Graison is a less common spelling of Grayson: SSA has recorded 467 Graison and 133,184 Grayson since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 148,992 babies since 1880, Graison is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 6,135 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Graison
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Graison and names like it
- Compare Graison and GraysonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGraison peaked in 2010.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Graison since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Graison.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Graison alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.