Meaning not yet researched.
Gryffin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 63 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,665 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,665 in 2019; #2,239 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gryffin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,239 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #1,665.
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Gryffin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 63 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,665 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 97 (2019).
In 2025, 63 US boys were named Gryffin, making it the 2,239th most common boys’ name of the year, up 247 places from #2,486 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 55 boys named Gryffin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,665, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 97. For comparison, it was #2,538 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gryffin in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 6 babies. In all, 1,134 US babies have been given the name, 1.8% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 524 babies named Gryffin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 780 US boys were named Gryffin; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,112 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gryffin ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #997 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Griffin (51,809 babies since 1880) and Griffen (1,808 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Gryffin 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 5 | #997 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 63 | #2,239 |
| 2024 | — | — | 55 | #2,486 |
| 2023 | — | — | 84 | #1,884 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,184 | 94 | #1,764 |
| 2021 | — | — | 87 | #1,805 |
| 2020 | — | — | 81 | #1,838 |
| 2019 | — | — | 97 | #1,665 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,438 | 84 | #1,811 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,019 | 74 | #1,944 |
| 2016 | — | — | 61 | #2,216 |
| 2015 | — | — | 49 | #2,538 |
| 2014 | — | — | 46 | #2,639 |
| 2013 | — | — | 36 | #3,079 |
| 2012 | — | — | 27 | #3,830 |
| 2011 | — | — | 18 | #5,057 |
| 2010 | — | — | 18 | #5,112 |
| 2009 | — | — | 20 | #4,816 |
| 2008 | — | — | 17 | #5,326 |
| 2007 | — | — | 15 | #5,745 |
| 2006 | — | — | 20 | #4,570 |
| 2005 | — | — | 22 | #4,104 |
| 2004 | — | — | 11 | #6,696 |
| 2003 | — | — | 15 | #5,125 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #8,776 |
| 2001 | — | — | 7 | #8,619 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #9,514 |
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).