Grayden
Grayden was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,690 among boys’ names; 2,175 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,140 Americans named Grayden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Grayden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Grayden?
#2,690 among boys’ names, 2025
Grayden fell from #1,498 in 2015 to #2,690 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 57.9 to 28.1 per million.
146 babies in 2008, the peak
Grayden peaked in 2008, when 146 boys were given it, #1,206 among boys’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,690 | 28.1 |
| 2024 | 49 | #2,682 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 44 | #2,856 | 25.7 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,449 | 32.6 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,159 | 37.7 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,150 | 37.7 |
| 2019 | 85 | #1,807 | 47.4 |
| 2018 | 76 | #1,944 | 41.8 |
| 2017 | 100 | #1,605 | 54.0 |
| 2016 | 97 | #1,648 | 51.1 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 111 | #1,498 | 57.9 |
| 2014 | 89 | #1,706 | 46.3 |
| 2013 | 118 | #1,416 | 62.4 |
| 2012 | 111 | #1,462 | 58.5 |
| 2011 | 125 | #1,354 | 65.8 |
| 2010 | 119 | #1,401 | 62.0 |
| 2009 | 132 | #1,320 | 66.5 |
| 2008 | 146 | #1,206 | 71.6 |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,483 | 52.0 |
| 2006 | 68 | #1,979 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,014 | 31.0 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,195 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,690 | 18.7 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,653 | 18.5 |
| 2001 | 42 | #2,356 | 21.6 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,816 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,131 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,485 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,316 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,462 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,581 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,419 | 4.1 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,789 | 3.5 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,310 | 3.0 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,737 | 4.7 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,031 | 5.5 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,902 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Grayden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Grayden has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Grayden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Grayden, and how old are they?
2,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,175 Americans ever recorded as Grayden. The median Grayden alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,820 people named Grayden (8 women and girls, 1,812 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,830 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 41 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 997 |
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).
Where are babies named Grayden born?
The states with the most babies named Grayden are Ohio, California and Pennsylvania, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 145 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| California | 84 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 56 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 54 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 48 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 34 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Utah | 34 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 32 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 31 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 30 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Grayden is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Grayden is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1918 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Grayden with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,853 babies since 1880, Grayden is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 72 babies (67%), the 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 Grayden
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 Grayden and names like it
- Compare Grayden and GraydonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGrayden peaked in 2008.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Grayden since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Grayden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Grayden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.