Grey — #877 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Grey

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,832 babies named Grey between 1913 and 2024, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Grey currently holds the #877 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 362 babies received it in a single year. Grey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,021 additional births since 1990.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Grey performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,405 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Grey shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 454 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Grey in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Grey 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 5,832 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.