Graysen
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · #1,388 for boys in 2025, 132 births
Given to boys 84.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 354 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,384since 1989
Graysen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 | #1,388 | 132 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | #1,286 | 153 |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 | #1,105 | 192 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | #1,007 | 221 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 | #929 | 243 |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 | #902 | 249 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 | #813 | 280 |
| 2018 | #3,853 | 38 | #723 | 331 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 | #763 | 307 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 | #698 | 354 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 | #831 | 270 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 | #870 | 253 |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 | #1,031 | 187 |
| 2012 | #3,523 | 45 | #973 | 206 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 | #943 | 210 |
| 2010 | #5,977 | 22 | #1,059 | 181 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 | #1,511 | 110 |
| 2008 | #4,268 | 36 | #1,655 | 93 |
| 2007 | #4,299 | 35 | #1,795 | 81 |
| 2006 | #4,265 | 34 | #1,840 | 74 |
| 2005 | #4,373 | 31 | #2,614 | 42 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | #3,636 | 25 |
| 2003 | #5,586 | 21 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #4,280 | 29 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #3,143 | 28 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 | #3,150 | 27 |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | #3,693 | 17 |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Graysen! It came in at #7,905, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1992, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Graysen is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Dakota#191 · 1 in 584
- West Virginia#324 · 1 in 1,563
- Missouri#371 · 1 in 1,859
- Kansas#417 · 1 in 1,957
- Tennessee#428 · 1 in 2,263
Best ever in a state: #191 in South Dakota, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | #191 | 7 | 1 in 584 |
| West Virginia | #324 | 5 | 1 in 1,563 |
| Missouri | #371 | 17 | 1 in 1,859 |
| Kansas | #417 | 8 | 1 in 1,957 |
| Tennessee | #428 | 16 | 1 in 2,263 |
| Nebraska | #440 | 5 | 1 in 1,990 |
| Indiana | #466 | 14 | 1 in 2,541 |
| Iowa | #498 | 6 | 1 in 2,539 |
| Minnesota | #510 | 10 | 1 in 2,799 |
| Utah | #550 | 7 | 1 in 2,997 |
| Oregon | #554 | 6 | 1 in 3,062 |
| Michigan | #558 | 14 | 1 in 3,410 |
| Alabama | #574 | 7 | 1 in 3,300 |
| Kentucky | #578 | 6 | 1 in 3,635 |
| Arizona | #614 | 9 | 1 in 4,005 |
| Washington | #625 | 10 | 1 in 3,704 |
| Oklahoma | #642 | 6 | 1 in 3,378 |
| Illinois | #645 | 15 | 1 in 4,278 |
| Louisiana | #647 | 7 | 1 in 3,508 |
| Ohio | #655 | 13 | 1 in 4,563 |
| Wisconsin | #677 | 6 | 1 in 4,487 |
| Colorado | #698 | 6 | 1 in 4,593 |
| Virginia | #716 | 8 | 1 in 5,202 |
| Florida | #717 | 19 | 1 in 5,155 |
| New York | #774 | 17 | 1 in 5,882 |
| Pennsylvania | #777 | 9 | 1 in 6,581 |
| Maryland | #795 | 5 | 1 in 5,512 |
| Texas | #904 | 24 | 1 in 7,717 |
| North Carolina | #909 | 7 | 1 in 7,425 |
| Georgia | #910 | 8 | 1 in 6,721 |
| New Jersey | #986 | 5 | 1 in 8,305 |
| California | #1,175 | 17 | 1 in 13,158 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Graysen
- 102 spots since 2024 (#1,286 → #1,388)
- 486 spots since 2020 (#902 → #1,388)
- 557 spots since 2015 (#831 → #1,388)
- Biggest jump: 161 spots in 2014 (#1,031 → #870)
- Biggest drop: 90 spots in 2019 (#723 → #813)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2016 at #698 (354 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2014–2021
- Highest: 1 in 5,361 boys born in 2016 were named Graysen (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,940 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 58.8% of all boys named Graysen (2,579) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2003, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,905 (1989) | #7,905 |
| 1990s | 90 | #3,693 (1995) | #5,240 |
| 2000s | 520 | #1,511 (2009) | #2,751 |
| 2010s | 2,579 | #698 (2016) | #870 |
| 2020s | 1,190 | #902 (2020) | #1,103 |
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.
Graysen in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 52,118 of them was named Graysen, which outranked 77.5% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,157Zenaida35
- #4,157Ziah35
- #4,157Zophia35
- #4,250Graysen34
- #4,250Aashna34
- #4,250Abree34
- #4,250Adhira34
- #4,345Acadia33
- #4,345Adelena33
- #4,345Adrina33
Tied with 94 names at #4,250; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 5,361 of them was named Graysen, which outranked 95.1% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).