Grey
Grey is given to both girls and boys: 31 girls and 222 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,486 among girls’ names and #1,014 among boys’, #1,904 among all names counting both); 7,108 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,810 Americans named Grey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Grey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Grey?
#1,014 among boys’ names, 2025
Grey fell from #917 in 2015 to #1,014 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 0.12 to 0.13 per 1,000.
445 babies in 2021, the peak
Grey peaked in 2021, when 445 babies were given it (362 boys, #717 among boys’ names). The 253 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 57% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,486 | 222 | #1,014 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,094 | 276 | #876 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,291 | 276 | #863 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,936 | 333 | #759 |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,236 | 362 | #717 |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,509 | 302 | #778 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,544 | 335 | #725 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,570 | 331 | #724 |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,520 | 327 | #733 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,717 | 321 | #758 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,511 | 234 | #917 |
| 2014 | 81 | #2,293 | 236 | #910 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,526 | 204 | #982 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,665 | 185 | #1,042 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,723 | 126 | #1,346 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,303 | 106 | #1,529 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,456 | 132 | #1,321 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,005 | 113 | #1,456 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,688 | 103 | #1,530 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,146 | 87 | #1,647 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,146 | 49 | #2,381 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,788 | 69 | #1,805 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,635 | 57 | #2,013 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,199 | 55 | #2,001 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,962 | 48 | #2,162 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,893 | 42 | #2,306 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,224 | 51 | #1,906 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 42 | #2,169 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,535 | 46 | #1,972 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,351 | 48 | #1,879 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 43 | #1,958 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,186 | 47 | #1,830 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 38 | #2,101 | |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,794 | 24 | #2,865 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,912 | 31 | #2,306 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,728 | 36 | #2,052 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 22 | #2,816 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 20 | #2,787 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 15 | #3,247 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 24 | #2,317 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 16 | #2,996 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 16 | #2,867 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 15 | #2,971 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 12 | #3,561 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 13 | #3,289 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 13 | #3,318 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 13 | #3,236 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 7 | #4,715 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 9 | #3,953 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 16 | #2,643 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 10 | #3,517 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 12 | #3,015 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 12 | #2,915 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 16 | #2,365 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 8 | #3,769 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 18 | #2,156 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 12 | #2,602 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 11 | #2,640 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 19 | #1,833 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 9 | #2,865 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 16 | #2,024 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 16 | #2,064 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 15 | #2,147 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 15 | #2,140 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 20 | #1,840 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,469 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 16 | #2,062 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 14 | #2,210 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 17 | #1,981 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 12 | #2,417 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,657 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #4,039 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 10 | #2,601 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 5 | #3,947 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 12 | #2,291 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 5 | #3,887 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 9 | #2,686 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 11 | #2,375 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 7 | #3,194 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 9 | #2,601 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 6 | #3,131 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 7 | #2,964 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 5 | #3,739 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,780 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 7 | #2,985 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,731 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 6 | #3,312 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 8 | #2,796 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 7 | #3,114 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,429 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 7 | #3,220 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 5 | #4,378 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 9 | #2,999 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 6 | #3,913 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 7 | #3,638 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 6 | #3,985 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 8 | #3,364 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 7 | #3,665 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 7 | #3,623 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 11 | #2,604 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 6 | #3,721 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 6 | #3,655 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 7 | #2,358 |
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 Grey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,108 Americans recorded as Grey, 15% are girls and 85% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Grey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Grey, and how old are they?
6,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 7,108 Americans ever recorded as Grey. The median Grey alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 5,453 people named Grey (1,087 women and girls, 4,366 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,852 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Grey rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 16 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 144 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 177 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 429 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,540 |
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 Grey born?
The states with the most babies named Grey are Texas, California and Ohio, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,188 | 0.7× |
| California | 17 | #1,170 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 16 | #606 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,084 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 12 | #732 | 0.9× |
| Utah | 11 | #419 | 2.5× |
| Georgia | 10 | #872 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #873 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 9 | #687 | 0.4× |
| New York | 8 | #1,343 | 0.6× |
Where Grey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Grey is most over-represented in Utah: since 1913 it was given 2.5 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 Grey 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 28,991 babies since 1880, Grey is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 253 of their 261 babies (97%), 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 Grey
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 Grey and names like it
- Compare Grey and GerryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGrey peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Grey since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Grey.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Grey alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.