Greysen
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- #1,959 for boys in 2025, 78 births
- Given to boys 91.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 218 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,833since 1993
Greysen 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 | #14,942 | 5 | #1,959 | 78 |
| 2024 | — | #1,878 | 85 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #1,681 | 101 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #1,250 | 156 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #1,064 | 201 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | #1,077 | 185 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #1,034 | 200 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #1,023 | 201 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #955 | 218 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | #967 | 213 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | #1,092 | 178 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | #1,184 | 157 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | #1,297 | 133 |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | #1,419 | 117 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #1,344 | 126 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #1,517 | 107 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #2,143 | 63 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 | #2,039 | 68 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #2,643 | 46 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #2,881 | 39 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #3,528 | 27 |
| 2004 | — | #4,129 | 21 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,271 | 14 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,502 | 17 | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | — | #4,389 | 17 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,317 | 12 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,960 | 12 | |
| 1996 | — | #6,496 | 8 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
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| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Greysen! It came in at #8,700, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1993–1994, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Greysen is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Florida#1,126 · 1 in 8,685
- Texas#1,908 · 1 in 21,881
- California#2,471 · 1 in 35,095
Best ever in a state: #367 in Nebraska, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #1,126 | 11 | 1 in 8,685 |
| Texas | #1,908 | 8 | 1 in 21,881 |
| California | #2,471 | 5 | 1 in 35,095 |
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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 Greysen
- 882 spots since 2020 (#1,077 → #1,959)
- Biggest jump: 125 spots in 2016
- Biggest drop: 68 spots in 2018
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 2017 at #955 (218 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2016–2017
- Highest: 1 in 8,491 boys born in 2017 were named Greysen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,898 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 58.2% of all boys named Greysen (1,650) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1990s | 53 | #4,960 (1997) | #6,518 |
| 2000s | 324 | #2,039 (2008) | #3,719 |
| 2010s | 1,650 | #955 (2017) | #1,183 |
| 2020s | 806 | #1,064 (2021) | #1,485 |
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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