Meaning not yet researched.
Graydon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #763 in 1905.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #763 in 1905; #5,464 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Graydon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,464 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1905, at #763.
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Graydon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #763 in 1905 · most boys in one year: 100 (2010).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Graydon, making it the 5,464th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,127 places from #6,591 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 13 boys named Graydon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #763, reached in 1905. The most boys given the name in a single year was 100, in 2010. For comparison, it was #1,758 in 2015 and #1,351 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Graydon in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 5 babies. In all, 3,509 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 729 babies named Graydon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 394 US boys were named Graydon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Grayden (2,175 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Graden, Gradyn and Graiden are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Graden (710), Gradyn (257), Graiden (80), Graeden (72), Gradon (50), Gradin (49), Graydin (11).
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 Graydon 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 | — | — | 17 | #5,464 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,591 |
| 2023 | — | — | 33 | #3,499 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,365 |
| 2021 | — | — | 28 | #3,846 |
| 2020 | — | — | 40 | #2,945 |
| 2019 | — | — | 53 | #2,499 |
| 2018 | — | — | 49 | #2,590 |
| 2017 | — | — | 62 | #2,173 |
| 2016 | — | — | 64 | #2,150 |
| 2015 | — | — | 87 | #1,758 |
| 2014 | — | — | 71 | #2,008 |
| 2013 | — | — | 73 | #1,921 |
| 2012 | — | — | 86 | #1,745 |
| 2011 | — | — | 84 | #1,744 |
| 2010 | — | — | 100 | #1,578 |
| 2009 | — | — | 76 | #1,900 |
| 2008 | — | — | 96 | #1,622 |
| 2007 | — | — | 78 | #1,854 |
| 2006 | — | — | 77 | #1,796 |
| 2005 | — | — | 61 | #2,041 |
| 2004 | — | — | 55 | #2,143 |
| 2003 | — | — | 59 | #1,968 |
| 2002 | — | — | 33 | #2,840 |
| 2001 | — | — | 40 | #2,448 |
| 2000 | — | — | 34 | #2,692 |
| 1999 | — | — | 30 | #2,823 |
| 1998 | — | — | 31 | #2,674 |
| 1997 | — | — | 37 | #2,279 |
| 1996 | — | — | 35 | #2,312 |
| 1995 | — | — | 25 | #2,873 |
| 1994 | — | — | 34 | #2,322 |
| 1993 | — | — | 18 | #3,553 |
| 1992 | — | — | 25 | #2,766 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,883 |
| 1990 | — | — | 17 | #3,504 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,885 |
| 1988 | — | — | 19 | #2,895 |
| 1987 | — | — | 22 | #2,502 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,631 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #3,897 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,348 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,712 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,780 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,693 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,318 |
| 1979 | — | — | 14 | #3,062 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,122 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #3,954 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,353 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,080 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,413 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,295 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,038 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,233 |
| 1970 | — | — | 15 | #2,434 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,158 |
| 1968 | — | — | 20 | #1,804 |
| 1967 | — | — | 11 | #2,532 |
| 1966 | — | — | 17 | #1,917 |
| 1965 | — | — | 11 | #2,530 |
| 1964 | — | — | 14 | #2,251 |
| 1963 | — | — | 14 | #2,244 |
| 1962 | — | — | 15 | #2,140 |
| 1961 | — | — | 22 | #1,756 |
| 1960 | — | — | 17 | #2,005 |
| 1959 | — | — | 16 | #2,061 |
| 1958 | — | — | 21 | #1,747 |
| 1957 | — | — | 18 | #1,915 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,126 |
| 1955 | — | — | 24 | #1,583 |
| 1954 | — | — | 14 | #2,150 |
| 1953 | — | — | 27 | #1,461 |
| 1952 | — | — | 17 | #1,890 |
| 1951 | — | — | 22 | #1,616 |
| 1950 | — | — | 29 | #1,351 |
| 1949 | — | — | 18 | #1,783 |
| 1948 | — | — | 20 | #1,674 |
| 1947 | — | — | 27 | #1,430 |
| 1946 | — | — | 27 | #1,367 |
| 1945 | — | — | 14 | #1,880 |
| 1944 | — | — | 22 | #1,458 |
| 1943 | — | — | 33 | #1,195 |
| 1942 | — | — | 29 | #1,308 |
| 1941 | — | — | 19 | #1,611 |
| 1940 | — | — | 18 | #1,654 |
| 1939 | — | — | 24 | #1,372 |
| 1938 | — | — | 24 | #1,384 |
| 1937 | — | — | 24 | #1,385 |
| 1936 | — | — | 27 | #1,276 |
| 1935 | — | — | 19 | #1,617 |
| 1934 | — | — | 31 | #1,199 |
| 1933 | — | — | 32 | #1,171 |
| 1932 | — | — | 28 | #1,302 |
| 1931 | — | — | 32 | #1,226 |
| 1930 | — | — | 36 | #1,180 |
| 1929 | — | — | 26 | #1,424 |
| 1928 | — | — | 42 | #1,086 |
| 1927 | — | — | 44 | #1,069 |
| 1926 | — | — | 41 | #1,115 |
| 1925 | — | — | 28 | #1,402 |
| 1924 | — | — | 34 | #1,259 |
| 1923 | — | — | 46 | #1,046 |
| 1922 | — | — | 30 | #1,351 |
| 1921 | — | — | 37 | #1,185 |
| 1920 | — | — | 36 | #1,214 |
| 1919 | — | — | 31 | #1,279 |
| 1918 | — | — | 24 | #1,512 |
| 1917 | — | — | 35 | #1,142 |
| 1916 | — | — | 34 | #1,128 |
| 1915 | — | — | 27 | #1,281 |
| 1914 | — | — | 24 | #1,202 |
| 1913 | — | — | 19 | #1,189 |
| 1912 | — | — | 15 | #1,239 |
| 1911 | — | — | 8 | #1,326 |
| 1910 | — | — | 9 | #1,152 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,553 |
| 1907 | — | — | 8 | #1,038 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,316 |
| 1905 | — | — | 11 | #763 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,196 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,061 |
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).