Meaning not yet researched.
Greyson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,439 in 2025. Its best rank was #77 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #77 in 2018; #149 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Greyson in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#149 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #77.
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Greyson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,439 boys in 2025. Peak: #77 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 4,849 (2017).
In 2025, 2,439 US boys were named Greyson, making it the 149th most common boys’ name of the year, down 22 places from #127 in 2024. That is 435 fewer than the 2,874 boys named Greyson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #77, reached in 2018. The most boys given the name in a single year was 4,849, in 2017. For comparison, it was #111 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Greyson in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 5 babies. In all, 61,043 US babies have been given the name, 1.3% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 33,591 babies named Greyson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 39,258 US boys were named Greyson; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 4,849. In 2025 that was about 1 in 700 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Greyson ranked highest in Vermont in 2025, at #42 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 10 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Greysen (3,087 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Greycen, Greysin and Greysyn 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: Greycen (206), Greysin (173), Greysyn (162), Greysun (61), Greison (38), Greysan (28), Greycin (6), Greysonn (5).
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 Greyson 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 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 10 | #42 | #72 |
| Hawaii | 14 | #57 | #93 |
| Maine | 19 | #58 | #84 |
| Alaska | 11 | #67 | #61 |
| New Hampshire | 19 | #82 | #78 |
| Mississippi | 32 | #84 | #84 |
| Kentucky | 57 | #86 | #95 |
| West Virginia | 21 | #88 | #76 |
| Tennessee | 95 | #89 | #84 |
| Arkansas | 35 | #96 | #69 |
| Ohio | 126 | #101 | #87 |
| Indiana | 73 | #106 | #79 |
| Idaho | 24 | #107 | #92 |
| Washington | 71 | #108 | #90 |
| Missouri | 64 | #109 | #106 |
| Oklahoma | 43 | #109 | #170 |
| South Carolina | 45 | #117 | #105 |
| Pennsylvania | 108 | #117 | #99 |
| Kansas | 32 | #121 | #54 |
| Michigan | 81 | #125 | #92 |
| North Dakota | 10 | #128 | #80 |
| Iowa | 32 | #129 | #70 |
| Massachusetts | 54 | #132 | #118 |
| Connecticut | 28 | #134 | #111 |
| Oregon | 30 | #138 | #121 |
| North Carolina | 89 | #144 | #92 |
| Rhode Island | 8 | #148 | #120 |
| Alabama | 39 | #148 | #90 |
| New Mexico | 13 | #151 | #180 |
| Wisconsin | 41 | #156 | #101 |
| Virginia | 57 | #157 | #119 |
| New York | 122 | #157 | #137 |
| Nebraska | 18 | #158 | #97 |
| Louisiana | 32 | #160 | #98 |
| Florida | 132 | #164 | #134 |
| Illinois | 72 | #165 | #139 |
| Minnesota | 40 | #167 | #136 |
| Utah | 32 | #171 | #68 |
| Arizona | 52 | #171 | #156 |
| Georgia | 72 | #173 | #137 |
| Maryland | 35 | #174 | #146 |
| Colorado | 40 | #175 | #90 |
| Nevada | 17 | #175 | #126 |
| South Dakota | 8 | #177 | #101 |
| Delaware | 6 | #182 | — |
| Montana | 7 | #185 | #62 |
| New Jersey | 44 | #216 | #144 |
| California | 169 | #220 | #173 |
| Texas | 155 | #252 | #163 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,403 | 2,439 | #149 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,731 | 2,874 | #127 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,914 | 3,076 | #118 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,788 | 3,773 | #95 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,548 | 4,225 | #84 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,355 | 4,375 | #81 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,581 | 4,567 | #79 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,412 | 4,754 | #77 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,799 | 4,849 | #80 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,948 | 4,326 | #95 |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,447 | 3,607 | #111 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,017 | 3,050 | #133 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,422 | 2,649 | #149 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,808 | 2,237 | #174 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,227 | 1,794 | #200 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,158 | 1,371 | #249 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,654 | 905 | #347 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,212 | 807 | #381 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,178 | 703 | #417 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,603 | 520 | #499 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,042 | 418 | #565 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,056 | 310 | #658 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,274 | 290 | #675 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,817 | 253 | #708 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,430 | 272 | #668 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,297 | 248 | #709 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,618 | 226 | #726 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,555 | 192 | #798 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,604 | 171 | #840 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,358 | 177 | #812 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,286 | 134 | #961 |
| 1994 | — | — | 95 | #1,173 |
| 1993 | — | — | 78 | #1,291 |
| 1992 | — | — | 66 | #1,403 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,920 | 53 | #1,596 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,736 | 50 | #1,643 |
| 1989 | — | — | 45 | #1,716 |
| 1988 | — | — | 40 | #1,746 |
| 1987 | — | — | 33 | #1,911 |
| 1986 | — | — | 31 | #1,937 |
| 1985 | — | — | 31 | #1,886 |
| 1984 | — | — | 19 | #2,561 |
| 1983 | — | — | 14 | #3,132 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,782 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,640 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,616 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,611 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,719 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,698 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,168 |
| 1974 | — | — | 9 | #3,665 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,759 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,122 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,683 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,129 |
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).