Meaning not yet researched.
Grey: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 222 in 2025. Its best rank was #717 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #717 in 2021; #1,014 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Grey in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,014 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #717.
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Grey: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 222 boys in 2025. Peak: #717 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 362 (2021).
In 2025, 222 US boys were named Grey, making it the 1,014th most common boys’ name of the year, down 138 places from #876 in 2024. That is 54 fewer than the 276 boys named Grey in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #717, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 362. For comparison, it was #917 in 2015 and #3,889 in 1950.
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Grey, making it the 4,487th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,393 places from #3,094 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 52 girls named Grey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,236, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 83. For comparison, it was #2,511 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Grey in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 7 babies. In all, 7,108 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,973 babies named Grey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,085 US boys were named Grey; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 362. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,694 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Grey ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #419 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gray (5,842 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Grae and Greya 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Grae (327), Greya (12).
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 Grey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 11 | #419 | #204 |
| Ohio | 16 | #606 | #1,021 |
| Indiana | 9 | #687 | — |
| North Carolina | 12 | #732 | #600 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #741 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #872 | #942 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #873 | #879 |
| Missouri | 5 | #911 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #934 | #793 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #968 | #643 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,014 | #1,045 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,084 | #1,136 |
| California | 17 | #1,170 | #994 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,188 | #1,080 |
| New York | 8 | #1,343 | #1,184 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,487 | 222 | #1,014 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,094 | 276 | #876 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,291 | 276 | #863 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,936 | 333 | #759 |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,236 | 362 | #717 |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,509 | 302 | #778 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,544 | 335 | #725 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,570 | 331 | #724 |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,520 | 327 | #733 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,717 | 321 | #758 |
| 2015 | 72 | #2,511 | 234 | #917 |
| 2014 | 81 | #2,293 | 236 | #910 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,528 | 204 | #982 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,666 | 185 | #1,042 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,724 | 126 | #1,346 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,305 | 106 | #1,529 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,459 | 132 | #1,321 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,008 | 113 | #1,456 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,692 | 103 | #1,530 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,151 | 87 | #1,647 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,153 | 49 | #2,385 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,794 | 69 | #1,808 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,642 | 57 | #2,017 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,205 | 55 | #2,005 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,969 | 48 | #2,166 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,901 | 42 | #2,310 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,233 | 51 | #1,909 |
| 1998 | — | — | 42 | #2,172 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,541 | 46 | #1,975 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,357 | 48 | #1,883 |
| 1995 | — | — | 43 | #1,963 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,192 | 47 | #1,835 |
| 1993 | — | — | 38 | #2,106 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,801 | 24 | #2,871 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,919 | 31 | #2,312 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,735 | 36 | #2,057 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,822 |
| 1988 | — | — | 20 | #2,792 |
| 1987 | — | — | 15 | #3,251 |
| 1986 | — | — | 24 | #2,319 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #2,999 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,868 |
| 1983 | — | — | 15 | #2,972 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,562 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,291 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,319 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,237 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,718 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #3,955 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,644 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,519 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #3,017 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,917 |
| 1972 | — | — | 16 | #2,365 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,771 |
| 1970 | — | — | 18 | #2,157 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,603 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,641 |
| 1967 | — | — | 19 | #1,834 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,866 |
| 1965 | — | — | 16 | #2,025 |
| 1964 | — | — | 16 | #2,065 |
| 1963 | — | — | 15 | #2,148 |
| 1962 | — | — | 15 | #2,141 |
| 1961 | — | — | 20 | #1,841 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,470 |
| 1959 | — | — | 16 | #2,063 |
| 1958 | — | — | 14 | #2,211 |
| 1957 | — | — | 17 | #1,982 |
| 1956 | — | — | 12 | #2,418 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,658 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,040 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,602 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,949 |
| 1951 | — | — | 12 | #2,292 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,889 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,687 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,376 |
| 1947 | — | — | 7 | #3,195 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,602 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,132 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #2,965 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,740 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,781 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #2,986 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,732 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,313 |
| 1935 | — | — | 8 | #2,796 |
| 1934 | — | — | 7 | #3,115 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,430 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,221 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,380 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #3,001 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,915 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,639 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #3,988 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,366 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,667 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,624 |
| 1918 | — | — | 11 | #2,605 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,722 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,656 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,359 |
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).