Gryffin vs Gryphon
American parents have registered 1,134 Gryffins since 1880, against 656 Gryphons. Gryffin is still ahead, with 63 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Gryffin Gryphon
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 29 years in which either name was published, Gryphon for 16 years and Gryffin for 13 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Gryffin | Gryphon | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,134 | 656 |
| Most in one year | 100 | 39 |
| Babies in 2025 | 63 | 21 |
| Estimated living today | 1,100 | 650 |
| Median age today | 6 | 14 |
| Peak year | 2019 | 2008 |
| Best rank | 1,658th boys | 3,005th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,230th | 4,707th |
| First recorded | 2000 | 1996 |
| Girls / boys | 20 / 1,114 | 0 / 656 |
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 Gryphons alive today are over 14; half the Gryffins are over 6. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Gryffin and Gryphon.