Gray — #1342 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Gray

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,038 babies named Gray between 1885 and 2024, spanning 140 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gray currently holds the #1342 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 175 babies received it in a single year. Gray is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 654 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gray performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,296 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Gray shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 327 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Gray in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gray in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 5,038 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.