Graylon
- #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · boys
- 1957 · 16 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 361since 1950
Graylon over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Graylon has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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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 | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #6,832 | 12 |
| 2023 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #9,788 | 7 |
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| 2003 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #6,843 | 8 |
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| 1993 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
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| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
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| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
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| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
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| 1966 | #3,249 | 7 |
| 1965 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | #3,601 | 6 |
| 1963 | #3,318 | 7 |
| 1962 | #2,186 | 14 |
| 1961 | #2,706 | 10 |
| 1960 | #2,871 | 9 |
| 1959 | #2,111 | 15 |
| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | #2,019 | 16 |
| 1956 | #2,361 | 12 |
| 1955 | #2,964 | 8 |
| 1954 | #3,452 | 6 |
| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
| 1952 | #3,373 | 6 |
| 1951 | #2,844 | 8 |
| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
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First appearance
1950
The first year at least five boys were named Graylon! It came in at #3,681, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1967–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Graylon is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Graylon in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 2,882 spots since 2024 (#6,832 → #9,714)
- 3,094 spots since 2020 (#6,620 → #9,714)
- 1,674 spots since 2015 (#8,040 → #9,714)
Rise & fade · boys
7 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1957 at #2,019 (16 births)
- Births halved by 1958, 1 yr 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 105,430
- Highest: 1 in 105,430 boys born in 2016 were named Graylon (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,019 in 1957, was only 1 in 134,827 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1950s
- 24.7% of all boys named Graylon (89) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 89 | #2,019 (1957) | #2,951 |
| 1960s | 60 | #2,186 (1962) | #3,025 |
| 1970s | 10 | #5,587 (1976) | #5,822 |
| 1980s | 33 | #4,153 (1981) | #5,565 |
| 1990s | 31 | #6,843 (1998) | #7,715 |
| 2000s | 31 | #8,310 (2009) | #10,420 |
| 2010s | 60 | #5,124 (2016) | #9,297 |
| 2020s | 47 | #6,620 (2020) | #8,533 |
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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