Griffin
Griffin places #222 across the country in 2025, peaking as we speak. An old entry (1881) having its biggest moment now, with 51,051 American bearers across the record.
Griffin’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Griffin, 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.
Griffin since 1881
Griffin peaked in 2023 at #214; #222 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Griffin is most common
Griffin is most common in New Hampshire: 0.6% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. Vermont (0.58%) and Maine (0.47%) follow.
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 Griffin
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Gemma
#170 in 2025 · Italian
Greyson
#149 in 2025
Graham
#120 in 2025
Georgia
#99 in 2025
Grayson
#51 in 2025
Gabriel
#37 in 2025 · Hebrew
Gianna
#33 in 2025
Cohen
#225 in 2025
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About Griffin
How common is Griffin today?
Griffin places #222 across the country in 2025, peaking as we speak. The chart above draws the whole run since 1881, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Griffin?
Honestly: our cited sources are silent on Griffin, and we would rather show you nothing than something made up.
Is there a sibling name for Griffin?
Gemma, Greyson and Graham sit nearest to Griffin on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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