girls:
4.1k births since 1961
#2693 (53rd percentile)
boys:
116.9k births since 1905
#273 (94th percentile)
overall:
121k births since 1905
#600 (92nd percentile)
The name Grayson is the #600 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 120,962 recorded births since 1905. This represents the 92.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #273 (94.1% percentile) for all time with 116,866 births since 1905. For girls, it ranks #2,693 (52.9% percentile) for all time with 4,096 births since 1961.
Grayson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1905 (1905 for boys and 1961 for girls). Birth data for Grayson is available in 116 out of the 119 years between 1905 and 2023 (116 years for boys and 50 years for girls). 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.
The name Grayson has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Grayson reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 96.7% percentile (ranked #31) with 4,424 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 4,424 births per million (ranked 96.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Grayson ranks #43 for boys (95.4% percentile) with 3,522 births per million, which is 79.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Grayson reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 20.6% percentile (ranked #713) with 96 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 96 births per million (ranked 20.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Grayson ranks #897 for girls (5.3% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 32.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Grayson".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Grayson is pronounced as GRAY-suhn, which has 2 syllables.
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