Griffon
Griffon was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 231 Americans have been recorded with it between 1995 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Griffon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Griffon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,290, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 2010, the peak
Griffon peaked in 2010, when 19 boys were given it, #4,899 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,290 | 4.6 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,430 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,235 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,719 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,832 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,254 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,930 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,305 | 5.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,058 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,272 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #12,955 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,899 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,371 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,527 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,788 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,238 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,298 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,689 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,655 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,767 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,022 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,711 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,171 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,560 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,684 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,344 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Griffon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Griffon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Griffon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Griffon, and how old are they?
An estimated 228 Americans named Griffon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 255 people named Griffon (13 women and girls, 242 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 200 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 55,508 babies since 1880, Griffon is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,746 babies recorded by SSA was a Griffon (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Griffon
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 Griffon and names like it
- Compare Griffon and GriffinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGriffon peaked in 2010.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Griffon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Griffon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.