Graylin
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
- Given to boys 84.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1958 · 28 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 529since 1949
Graylin over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | — | |
| 2024 | — | #10,938 | 6 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | — | |
| 2012 | — | #12,274 | 5 | |
| 2011 | — | #8,767 | 8 | |
| 2010 | — | #8,803 | 8 | |
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| 2008 | — | #12,553 | 5 | |
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| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | — | |
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| 1999 | — | #8,704 | 6 | |
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| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,452 | 10 | |
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | — | #5,660 | 9 | |
| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
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| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,552 | 8 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | — | #3,601 | 11 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,309 | 7 | |
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| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,854 | 9 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,539 | 11 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,852 | 19 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,602 | 25 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,315 | 13 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,522 | 27 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,483 | 28 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,487 | 28 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,568 | 25 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,979 | 16 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,942 | 8 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,391 | 11 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,875 | 8 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,066 | 7 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,321 | 11 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1949
The first year at least five boys were named Graylin! It came in at #3,298, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1967–1970, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Graylin is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Graylin in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Graylin
Momentum · boys
Faded out
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
9 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1958 at #1,483 (28 births)
- Births halved by 1960, 2 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 75,800
- Highest: 1 in 75,800 boys born in 1958 were named Graylin (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 287,148 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1950s
- 31.9% of all boys named Graylin (169) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 6 | #3,298 (1949) | #3,298 |
| 1950s | 169 | #1,483 (1958) | #2,163 |
| 1960s | 89 | #1,602 (1961) | #2,620 |
| 1970s | 43 | #3,658 (1971) | #4,482 |
| 1980s | 66 | #3,601 (1981) | #5,384 |
| 1990s | 48 | #5,452 (1994) | #7,487 |
| 2000s | 5 | #12,553 (2008) | #12,553 |
| 2010s | 68 | #6,632 (2014) | #9,800 |
| 2020s | 35 | #6,897 (2023) | #10,290 |
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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