Grier
Grier is given to both girls and boys: 20 girls and 6 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,987 among girls’ names and #11,132 among boys’, #8,710 among all names counting both); 756 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Grier by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Grier mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Grier is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Grier?
#5,987 among girls’ names, 2025
Grier rose from #10,387 in 2015 to #5,987 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 12.4 per million.
43 babies in 2009, the peak
Grier peaked in 2009, when 43 babies were given it (33 girls, #4,519 among girls’ names). The 26 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 60% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,987 | 6 | #11,132 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,485 | 8 | #9,289 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,500 | 11 | #7,438 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,763 | 8 | #9,285 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,490 | 7 | #10,089 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,720 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,258 | 14 | #6,204 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,620 | 6 | #11,253 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,589 | 9 | #8,382 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,682 | 11 | #7,304 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,387 | 12 | #6,806 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,812 | 5 | #12,711 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,560 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,962 | 6 | #11,271 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,342 | 10 | #7,683 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,255 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,519 | 10 | #7,899 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,686 | 6 | #11,539 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,501 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,502 | 10 | #7,612 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,789 | 5 | #11,970 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,879 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,340 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,894 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #9,785 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,273 | 7 | #7,407 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #9,343 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,070 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,359 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,637 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 12 | #3,016 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 7 | #4,240 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,259 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,293 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 7 | #3,378 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,076 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 5 | #3,948 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 6 | #3,506 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 5 | #3,888 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #3,007 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 5 | #3,496 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 6 | #3,352 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,430 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 6 | #3,757 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 7 | #3,366 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 6 | #3,941 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #3,900 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 12 | #2,494 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 8 | #3,365 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 9 | #3,079 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 8 | #3,327 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 6 | #3,905 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 7 | #3,499 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 5 | #4,158 |
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 Grier a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 756 Americans recorded as Grier, 56% are girls and 44% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Grier: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Grier, and how old are they?
An estimated 641 Americans named Grier and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 688 people named Grier (399 women and girls, 289 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 509 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,574 babies since 1880, Grier is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 163 babies (16%), 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 Grier
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 Grier and names like it
- Compare Grier and GreerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGrier peaked in 2009.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Grier since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Grier: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Grier.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Grier alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.