Grayden

Peak · boys
2008 · 146 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,175
since 1918

Grayden over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Grayden has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank19801990200020102020peak #1,205, 2008boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it. Not on the chart: 6 boys in 1918, 6 boys in 1922, 5 boys in 1937 (see the data table).

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#2,67648
2024#2,67449
2023#2,84844
2022#2,43857
2021#2,15766
2020#2,13965
2019#1,80585
2018#1,93776
2017#1,605100
2016#1,64197
2015#1,491111
2014#1,70189
2013#1,413118
2012#1,462111
2011#1,350125
2010#1,399119
2009#1,314132
2008#1,205146
2007#1,477108
2006#1,96768
2005#2,00862
2004#2,19353
2003#2,67437
2002#2,63236
2001#2,34642
2000#3,76421
1999#3,10326
1998#6,3149
1997#4,24615
1996#4,39614
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1993#6,2288
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First appearance
1918

The first year at least five boys were named Grayden! It came in at #3,728, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1919–1921, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Grayden is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Grayden in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Grayden
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 537 spots since 2020 (#2,139 → #2,676)
Rise & fade · boys
90 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1918
  • Peaked 2008 at #1,205 (146 births)
  • Births halved by 2020, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 13,974
  • Highest: 1 in 13,974 boys born in 2008 were named Grayden (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 35,585 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 47.4% of all boys named Grayden (1,031) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s6#3,728 (1918)#3,728
1920s6#3,872 (1922)#3,872
1930s5#3,518 (1937)#3,518
1940s0——
1950s0——
1960s0——
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1980s6#6,941 (1989)#6,941
1990s87#3,103 (1999)#5,311
2000s705#1,205 (2008)#2,158
2010s1,031#1,350 (2011)#1,580
2020s329#2,139 (2020)#2,489

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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