Graysen
Graysen is given to both girls and boys: 15 girls and 132 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,252 among girls’ names and #1,390 among boys’, #2,739 among all names counting both); 5,182 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,140 Americans named Graysen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Graysen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Graysen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Graysen is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Rare modern spelling of Grayson.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Graysen?
#1,390 among boys’ names, 2025
Graysen fell from #833 in 2015 to #1,390 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.14 to 0.08 per 1,000.
388 babies in 2016, the peak
Graysen peaked in 2016, when 388 babies were given it (354 boys, #700 among boys’ names). The 147 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 38% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,252 | 132 | #1,390 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,019 | 153 | #1,287 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,292 | 192 | #1,106 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,216 | 221 | #1,009 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,489 | 243 | #930 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,386 | 249 | #902 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,957 | 280 | #814 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,876 | 331 | #723 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,604 | 307 | #765 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,286 | 354 | #700 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,331 | 270 | #833 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,303 | 253 | #870 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,732 | 187 | #1,032 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,549 | 206 | #973 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,268 | 210 | #944 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,037 | 181 | #1,062 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,175 | 110 | #1,511 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,302 | 93 | #1,659 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,329 | 81 | #1,803 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,293 | 74 | #1,846 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,404 | 42 | #2,631 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,311 | 25 | #3,671 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,651 | 21 | #4,023 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,313 | 19 | #4,224 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,079 | 28 | #3,168 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,198 | 27 | #3,169 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,769 | 16 | #4,420 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,713 | 15 | #4,486 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,481 | 18 | #3,788 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,350 | 12 | #4,984 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,197 | 17 | #3,745 |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #9,321 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 7 | #7,071 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,348 |
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 Graysen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,182 Americans recorded as Graysen, 15% are girls and 85% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Graysen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Graysen, and how old are they?
5,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,182 Americans ever recorded as Graysen. The median Graysen alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 3,504 people named Graysen (637 women and girls, 2,867 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 62 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,560 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,520 |
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 Graysen born?
The states with the most babies named Graysen are Texas, California and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,515 | 0.6× |
| California | 7 | #2,060 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,531 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 6 | #933 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #967 | 0.7× |
| Utah | 6 | #645 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,349 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,414 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,308 | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 5 | #825 | 0.4× |
Where Graysen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Graysen is most over-represented in Washington: since 1989 it was given 1.1 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 Graysen 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 140,620 babies since 1880, Graysen is the second most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 147 of their 6,043 babies (2.4%), again the second 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 Graysen
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 Graysen and names like it
- Compare Graysen and GraysonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGraysen peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Graysen since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Graysen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Graysen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Graysen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.