boys:
2.1k births since 1918
#2757 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1918
#5707 (26th percentile)
The name Grayden is the #5,707 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,075 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 26.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,757 (39.9% percentile) for all time with 2,075 births since 1918.
Grayden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (first recorded for boys in 1918). Birth data for Grayden is available in 35 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Grayden reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 15.6% percentile (ranked #766) with 67 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 67 births per million (ranked 15.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Grayden ranks #872 for boys (4.3% percentile) with 24 births per million, which is 35.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Grayden".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Grayden is pronounced as GRAY-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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