boys:
3.5k births since 1890
#2120 (54th percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1890
#4639 (40th percentile)
The name Graydon is the #4,639 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,479 recorded births since 1890. This represents the 40.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,120 (53.8% percentile) for all time with 3,479 births since 1890.
Graydon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1890 (first recorded for boys in 1890). Birth data for Graydon is available in 120 out of the 134 years between 1890 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, Graydon reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 10.8% percentile (ranked #785) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 77 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Graydon ranks #883 for boys (3.1% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 23.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Graydon".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Graydon is pronounced as GRAY-duhn, which has 2 syllables.
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