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Gredmarie vs Greyson

American parents have registered 61,043 Greysons since 1880, against 68 Gredmaries. Greyson is still ahead, with 2,457 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Gredmarie against Greyson, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Gredmarie Greyson

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Greyson has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1965 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Gredmarie had 47 and Greyson had 1,811.

Side by side

  Gredmarie Greyson
Total US births 6861,043
Most in one year 474,889
Babies in 2025 under 52,457
Estimated living today 7061,000
Median age today 148
Peak year 20112017
Best rank 3,407th girls80th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked149th
First recorded 20111965
Girls / boys 68 / 0812 / 60,231

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Gredmaries alive today are over 14; half the Greysons are over 8. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gredmarie and Greyson.