In 2025, 23 US boys were named Graylen, making it the 4,444th most common boys’ name of the year, down 809 places from #3,635 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 31 boys named Graylen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,058, reached in 1956. The most boys given the name in a single year was 34, in 2023. For comparison, it was #12,738 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Graylen in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 8 babies. In all, 295 US babies have been given the name, 8.8% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 158 babies named Graylen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 194 US boys were named Graylen; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.