girls:
779 births since 1990
#4937 (14th percentile)
boys:
54.9k births since 1965
#464 (90th percentile)
overall:
55.7k births since 1965
#1006 (87th percentile)
The name Greyson is the #1,006 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 55,654 recorded births since 1965. This represents the 87.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #464 (89.9% percentile) for all time with 54,875 births since 1965. For girls, it ranks #4,937 (13.6% percentile) for all time with 779 births since 1990.
Greyson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1965 (1965 for boys and 1990 for girls). Birth data for Greyson is available in 53 out of the 59 years between 1965 and 2023 (53 years for boys and 31 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 Greyson has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Greyson reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 91.8% percentile (ranked #76) with 2,445 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 2,449 births per million (ranked 91.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Greyson ranks #114 for boys (87.6% percentile) with 1,674 births per million, which is 68.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Greyson reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #916) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 29 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Greyson ranks #925 for girls (2.3% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 53.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Greyson".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Greyson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.9% confident that Greyson is pronounced as GRAY-suhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GRAY-zuhn, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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