Graycen
Graycen is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 26 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,536 among girls’ names and #4,073 among boys’, #6,761 among all names counting both); 1,430 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Graycen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Graycen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Graycen?
#8,536 among girls’ names, 2025
Graycen fell from #3,403 in 2015 to #8,536 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 26.3 to 7.5 per million.
127 babies in 2020, the peak
Graycen peaked in 2020, when 127 babies were given it (38 girls, #3,804 among girls’ names). The 38 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 30% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,536 | 26 | #4,073 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,041 | 28 | #3,914 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,752 | 26 | #4,145 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,215 | 27 | #4,023 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,627 | 37 | #3,205 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,804 | 89 | #1,735 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,377 | 84 | #1,819 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,366 | 34 | #3,322 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,720 | 39 | #3,029 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,117 | 31 | #3,558 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #3,403 | 25 | #4,112 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,609 | 33 | #3,323 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,731 | 34 | #3,216 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,431 | 28 | #3,739 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,172 | 17 | #5,279 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,521 | 29 | #3,657 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,984 | 14 | #6,205 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,340 | 9 | #8,527 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,000 | 14 | #6,017 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,869 | 8 | #8,994 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,660 | 5 | #12,049 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,536 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,987 | 7 | #8,987 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,178 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,737 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,029 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,021 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,546 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,124 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,271 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,295 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Graycen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,430 Americans recorded as Graycen, 55% are girls and 45% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Graycen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Graycen, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,430 Americans ever recorded as Graycen. The median Graycen alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,030 people named Graycen (634 women and girls, 396 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,091 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 490 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 918 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 9,974 babies since 1880, Graycen is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 192 babies (20%), again the third most given.
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 Graycen
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 Graycen and names like it
- Compare Graycen and GracynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGraycen peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Graycen since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Graycen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Graycen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.