Griffyn
Griffyn was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,279 among boys’ names; 526 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Griffyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Griffyn?
#5,279 among boys’ names, 2025
Griffyn fell from #5,136 in 2015 to #5,279 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 9.4 to 10.5 per million.
33 babies in 2020, the peak
Griffyn peaked in 2020, when 33 babies were given it (27 boys, #3,854 among boys’ names). The 18 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 18 | #5,279 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 23 | #4,474 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 29 | #3,823 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 21 | #4,759 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 24 | #4,286 | |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,040 | 27 | #3,854 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 24 | #4,262 | |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,945 | 24 | #4,269 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,013 | 14 | #6,140 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,980 | 23 | #4,374 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,216 | 18 | #5,136 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,266 | 14 | #6,099 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 20 | #4,683 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,793 | 16 | #5,561 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,482 | 22 | #4,414 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 19 | #4,900 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,278 | 22 | #4,479 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 14 | #6,184 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 9 | #8,422 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 10 | #7,613 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 13 | #5,982 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 12 | #6,260 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 9 | #7,451 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 7 | #8,768 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 11 | #6,163 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 13 | #5,378 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 7 | #8,154 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #9,786 |
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 Griffyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 526 Americans recorded as Griffyn, 11% are girls and 89% boys. In 2025 it went to 18 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Griffyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Griffyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 521 Americans named Griffyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 408 people named Griffyn (90 women and girls, 318 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 383 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Griffyn?
Griffyn is a less common spelling of Griffin: SSA has recorded 526 Griffyn and 51,809 Griffin since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 55,508 babies since 1880, Griffyn is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 1,746 babies (1.0%), the third 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 Griffyn
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 Griffyn and names like it
- Compare Griffyn and GriffinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGriffyn peaked in 2020.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Griffyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Griffyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.