Meaning not yet researched.
Graycen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,735 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,735 in 2020; #4,074 in 2025. About 68% of babies named Graycen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,074 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,735.
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Graycen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,735 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 89 (2020).
In 2025, 26 US boys were named Graycen, making it the 4,074th most common boys’ name of the year, down 158 places from #3,916 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 28 boys named Graycen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,735, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 89. For comparison, it was #4,114 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Graycen, making it the 8,538th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,493 places from #7,045 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 16 girls named Graycen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,117, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 53. For comparison, it was #3,403 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Graycen in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 6 babies. In all, 1,430 US babies have been given the name, 55% of them girls and 45% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 749 babies named Graycen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 421 US boys were named Graycen; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 89. In 2025 that was about 1 in 65,695 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Grayson (133,184 babies since 1880), Graysen (5,182 babies since 1880), Gracyn (4,326 babies since 1880) and Gracen (3,531 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Graycen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,538 | 26 | #4,074 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,045 | 28 | #3,916 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,757 | 26 | #4,149 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,218 | 27 | #4,026 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,631 | 37 | #3,207 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,805 | 89 | #1,735 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,378 | 84 | #1,819 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,370 | 34 | #3,326 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,721 | 39 | #3,030 |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,117 | 31 | #3,559 |
| 2015 | 47 | #3,403 | 25 | #4,114 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,611 | 33 | #3,325 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,733 | 34 | #3,218 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,432 | 28 | #3,742 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,173 | 17 | #5,283 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,522 | 29 | #3,658 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,985 | 14 | #6,209 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,343 | 9 | #8,532 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,002 | 14 | #6,020 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,870 | 8 | #9,000 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,665 | 5 | #12,057 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,541 | — | — |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,992 | 7 | #8,994 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,184 | — | — |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,742 | — | — |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,035 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,028 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,553 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,129 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,279 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,300 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).