Grayson — #48 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Grayson

The Social Security Administration has registered 123,139 babies named Grayson between 1905 and 2024, spanning 120 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Grayson currently holds the #48 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 8,717 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Grayson performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 66,398 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Grayson shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 11,434 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Grayson in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Grayson 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 123,139 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.