Meaning not yet researched.
Griffen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,174 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,174 in 1999; #5,465 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Griffen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,465 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #1,174.
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Griffen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,174 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 110 (1999).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Griffen, making it the 5,465th most common boys’ name of the year, up 51 places from #5,516 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 17 boys named Griffen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,174, reached in 1999. That year also had the most boys given the name: 110. For comparison, it was #3,180 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Griffen in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 6 babies. In all, 1,808 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 764 babies named Griffen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 273 US boys were named Griffen; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 36. 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 Griffin (51,809 babies since 1880) and Gryffin (1,134 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Griffen 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 | #5,465 |
| 2024 | — | — | 17 | #5,516 |
| 2023 | — | — | 30 | #3,745 |
| 2022 | — | — | 27 | #4,027 |
| 2021 | — | — | 36 | #3,261 |
| 2020 | — | — | 26 | #3,955 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,836 |
| 2018 | — | — | 27 | #3,925 |
| 2017 | — | — | 36 | #3,210 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,717 |
| 2015 | — | — | 36 | #3,180 |
| 2014 | — | — | 27 | #3,830 |
| 2013 | — | — | 36 | #3,078 |
| 2012 | — | — | 53 | #2,392 |
| 2011 | — | — | 50 | #2,484 |
| 2010 | — | — | 61 | #2,178 |
| 2009 | — | — | 67 | #2,059 |
| 2008 | — | — | 72 | #1,974 |
| 2007 | — | — | 70 | #2,003 |
| 2006 | — | — | 70 | #1,928 |
| 2005 | — | — | 62 | #2,019 |
| 2004 | — | — | 78 | #1,660 |
| 2003 | — | — | 86 | #1,502 |
| 2002 | — | — | 86 | #1,476 |
| 2001 | — | — | 80 | #1,515 |
| 2000 | — | — | 93 | #1,366 |
| 1999 | — | — | 110 | #1,174 |
| 1998 | — | — | 89 | #1,343 |
| 1997 | — | — | 88 | #1,302 |
| 1996 | — | — | 72 | #1,438 |
| 1995 | — | — | 35 | #2,268 |
| 1994 | — | — | 24 | #2,980 |
| 1993 | — | — | 30 | #2,472 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #8,909 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,610 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,254 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,321 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,715 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,704 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,035 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,054 |
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).