Graycen
- #8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- #4,050 for boys in 2025, 26 births
- Given to girls 55.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 53 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 786since 1995
Graycen over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | #4,050 | 26 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #3,896 | 28 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 | #4,112 | 26 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | #5,573 | 22 | #3,180 | 37 |
| 2020 | #3,778 | 38 | #1,731 | 89 |
| 2019 | #4,343 | 32 | #1,816 | 84 |
| 2018 | #5,315 | 24 | #3,301 | 34 |
| 2017 | #3,697 | 41 | #3,006 | 39 |
| 2016 | #3,100 | 53 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2015 | #3,389 | 47 | #4,080 | 25 |
| 2014 | #3,585 | 43 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 | #3,189 | 34 |
| 2012 | #3,419 | 47 | #3,714 | 28 |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 | #5,200 | 17 |
| 2010 | #4,494 | 32 | #3,633 | 29 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #5,279 | 27 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #4,811 | 29 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | — | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | — | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | — | |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | — | |
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First appearance
1995
The first year at least five girls were named Graycen! It came in at #11,783, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1996, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Graycen is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Graycen in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Graycen
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 4,584 spots since 2020 (#3,778 → #8,362)
Rise & fade · girls
21 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2016 at #3,100 (53 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 33,434
- Highest: 1 in 33,434 girls born in 2016 were named Graycen (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 50.3% of all girls named Graycen (395) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2018
- Mostly girls until 2017, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 36 | #8,805 (1999) | #11,009 |
| 2000s | 225 | #4,688 (2001) | #5,751 |
| 2010s | 395 | #3,100 (2016) | #3,920 |
| 2020s | 130 | #3,778 (2020) | #6,083 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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