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Grethe vs Greyson

American parents have registered 61,043 Greysons since 1880, against 7 Grethes. Greyson is still ahead, with 2,457 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Grethe 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

Of the 56 years in which either name was published, Greyson for 55 years and Grethe for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Grethe Greyson
Total US births 761,043
Most in one year 74,889
Babies in 2025 under 52,457
Estimated living today 161,000
Median age today 938
Peak year 19322017
Best rank 3,568th girls80th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked149th
First recorded 19321965
Girls / boys 7 / 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 Grethes alive today are over 93; half the Greysons are over 8. That is 85 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: Grethe and Greyson.