Greyson
The 2025 national count puts Greyson at #149, and it is easing off its peak. Modern by the data's own clock (1965 is its first appearance), at 60,231 bearers so far.
Greyson’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Greyson, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Greyson since 1965
Greyson peaked in 2017 at #80; #149 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Greyson is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Greyson runs strongest in Vermont at 0.83% in 2025, then Maine and Alaska.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Greyson
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Gemma
#170 in 2025 · Italian
Graham
#120 in 2025
Griffin
#222 in 2025
Georgia
#99 in 2025
Gracie
#227 in 2025 · Latin
Grayson
#51 in 2025
Grace
#38 in 2025 · Latin
Gabriel
#37 in 2025 · Hebrew
Browse: names starting with G · all names
About Greyson
Where does Greyson rank right now?
The 2025 national count puts Greyson at #149, and it is easing off its peak. The full curve since 1965 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Greyson have a meaning on record?
The 1884 reference we quote from has no entry for Greyson. Rather than borrow a gloss from somewhere we cannot cite, the page leaves the meaning blank and lets the chart speak.
Which names sit near Greyson?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Gemma sits closest, with Graham and Griffin just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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