Grayson
Grayson reached its high-water mark in 2017 at number 34, and has been recorded 133,184 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 51st. About 131,000 Graysons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Grayson boys named Grayson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 133,184
- Estimated living today
- 131,000
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 34th
- Rank in 2025
- 51st
- First recorded
- 1905
- Girls / boys
- 4,190 / 128,994
How old the living Graysons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 133,184 babies given the name since 1905, about 131,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 113,000 of them are children and 330 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From Middle English greyve (“steward”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Graysons
- Grayson Allen (born 1995)American basketball player
- Grayson Perry (born 1960)English artist, writer and broadcaster
- Grayson Hall (1922–1985)American television, film and stage actress
- Grayson Waller (born 1990)Australian professional wrestler
- Grayson Russell (born 1998)American actor
People named Grayson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Grayson is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Grayson is most concentrated in Nevada (2.1×), North Carolina (1.9×), Utah (1.8×), Alaska (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular boys’ names the year Grayson peaked:
Grayson elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Grayson | 8,135 | 68th |
| Scotland boys | Grayson | 811 | 48th |
| New Zealand boys | Grayson | 695 | 44th |
| Ireland boys | Grayson | 224 | 175th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Grayson | 110 | 106th |
| France boys | Grayson | 60 | 2,374th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Grayson among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Grayson | 5 | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Grayson against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.