Greyson
Greyson was given to 2,439 boys in 2025, #149 among boys’ names; 61,043 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 60,500 Americans named Greyson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Greyson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Greyson mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Greyson is “a male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Grayson.”
Variant of Grayson.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Greyson?
#149 among boys’ names, 2025
Greyson fell from #111 in 2015 to #149 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.9 to 1.4 per 1,000.
4,889 babies in 2017, the peak
Greyson peaked in 2017, when 4,889 babies were given it (4,849 boys, #80 among boys’ names). The 2,457 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,439 | #149 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 2,874 | #127 | 1.7 |
| 2023 | 3,076 | #118 | 1.8 |
| 2022 | 3,773 | #95 | 2.2 |
| 2021 | 4,225 | #84 | 2.4 |
| 2020 | 4,375 | #81 | 2.5 |
| 2019 | 4,567 | #79 | 2.5 |
| 2018 | 4,754 | #77 | 2.6 |
| 2017 | 4,849 | #80 | 2.6 |
| 2016 | 4,326 | #95 | 2.3 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3,607 | #111 | 1.9 |
| 2014 | 3,050 | #133 | 1.6 |
| 2013 | 2,649 | #149 | 1.4 |
| 2012 | 2,237 | #174 | 1.2 |
| 2011 | 1,794 | #200 | 0.94 |
| 2010 | 1,371 | #249 | 0.71 |
| 2009 | 905 | #347 | 0.46 |
| 2008 | 807 | #381 | 0.40 |
| 2007 | 703 | #417 | 0.34 |
| 2006 | 520 | #499 | 0.25 |
| 2005 | 418 | #565 | 0.21 |
| 2004 | 310 | #658 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 290 | #675 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 253 | #708 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 272 | #668 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 248 | #708 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 226 | #724 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 192 | #797 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 171 | #838 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 177 | #810 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 134 | #958 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 95 | #1,169 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 78 | #1,286 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 66 | #1,398 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 53 | #1,590 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 50 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 45 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 40 | #1,741 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 33 | #1,907 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 31 | #1,935 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 31 | #1,885 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,560 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,131 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,780 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,638 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,614 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,609 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,716 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,696 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,166 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,663 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,757 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,121 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,682 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,128 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Greyson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 61,043 Americans recorded as Greyson, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 18 girls and 2,439 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Greyson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Greyson, and how old are they?
60,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 61,043 Americans ever recorded as Greyson. The median Greyson alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 36,522 people named Greyson (670 women and girls, 35,852 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 40,879 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 61 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 879 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 48,700 |
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 Greyson born?
The states with the most babies named Greyson are California, Texas and Florida, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 169 | #220 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 155 | #252 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 132 | #164 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 126 | #101 | 1.2× |
| New York | 122 | #157 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 108 | #117 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 95 | #89 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 89 | #144 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 81 | #125 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 73 | #106 | 1.2× |
Where Greyson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Greyson is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1965 it was given 1.4 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 Greyson 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 68,849 babies since 1880, Greyson is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,457 of their 2,662 babies (92%), again the 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 Greyson
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 Greyson and names like it
- Compare Greyson and GersonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGreyson peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Greyson since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Greyson: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Greyson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Greyson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.