girls:
20 births since 2017
#5696 (0th percentile)
boys:
994 births since 2000
#3598 (21st percentile)
overall:
1k births since 2000
#6725 (13th percentile)
The name Gryffin is the #6,725 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,014 recorded births since 2000. This represents the 13.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,598 (21.5% percentile) for all time with 994 births since 2000. For girls, it ranks #5,696 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 20 births since 2017.
Gryffin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2000 (2000 for boys and 2017 for girls).
The name Gryffin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gryffin reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 10.0% percentile (ranked #825) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 50 births per million (ranked 10.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Gryffin ranks #833 for boys (8.6% percentile) with 45 births per million, which is 89.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gryffin reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #946) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gryffin".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Gryffin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.9% confident that Gryffin is pronounced as GRIH-fihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GRIH-feen, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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