Griffen
Griffen was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,463 among boys’ names; 1,808 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,780 Americans named Griffen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Griffen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Griffen?
#5,463 among boys’ names, 2025
Griffen fell from #3,179 in 2015 to #5,463 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 10.0 per million.
110 babies in 1999, the peak
Griffen peaked in 1999, when 110 boys were given it, #1,172 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,463 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,512 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,742 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,024 | 15.5 |
| 2021 | 36 | #3,259 | 20.6 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,952 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,833 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,921 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,209 | 19.4 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,716 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,179 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,827 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,076 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 53 | #2,391 | 27.9 |
| 2011 | 50 | #2,483 | 26.3 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,177 | 31.8 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,058 | 33.8 |
| 2008 | 72 | #1,973 | 35.3 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,003 | 33.7 |
| 2006 | 70 | #1,927 | 34.1 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,015 | 31.0 |
| 2004 | 78 | #1,657 | 39.3 |
| 2003 | 86 | #1,499 | 43.5 |
| 2002 | 86 | #1,473 | 44.3 |
| 2001 | 80 | #1,511 | 41.2 |
| 2000 | 93 | #1,363 | 47.4 |
| 1999 | 110 | #1,172 | 57.3 |
| 1998 | 89 | #1,340 | 46.6 |
| 1997 | 88 | #1,299 | 46.7 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,436 | 38.0 |
| 1995 | 35 | #2,263 | 18.4 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,974 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 30 | #2,466 | 15.3 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,901 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,603 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,248 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,314 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,708 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,697 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,030 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,049 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Griffen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Griffen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Griffen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Griffen, and how old are they?
1,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,808 Americans ever recorded as Griffen. The median Griffen alive today is 22 years old; half are between 15 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,727 people named Griffen (29 women and girls, 1,698 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,640 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 213 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 369 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 55,508 babies since 1880, Griffen is the second most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 1,746 babies (<1%), the fourth 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 Griffen
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 Griffen and names like it
- Compare Griffen and GriffinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sGriffen peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Griffen since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Griffen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Griffen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.