Primarily a boy's name · 99% boys
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Greyson yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Greyson's real problem is that half its bearers are spelled Grayson. The two variants split a single sound between them, so both charts understate how often the name is actually heard. This spelling first appears in 1965, peaked at 4,848 births in 2017 with a best rank of 77 the following year, and now records 2,868 at rank 127, down 6% over ten years. The all-time total of 58,563 covers barely sixty years. The one recorded namesake, the musician Greyson Chance, born 1997, went viral in 2010, which is close enough to the rise to be suggestive without being convincing on its own. Colour names for boys have had a strong run, but the -son ending that carried Jackson and Mason is the more likely engine here.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 5 | #4,129 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,682 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,123 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,756 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,664 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,169 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,697 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,719 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,612 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,617 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,641 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,781 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,132 |
| 1984 | 19 | #2,562 |
| 1985 | 31 | #1,886 |
| 1986 | 31 | #1,937 |
| 1987 | 33 | #1,911 |
| 1988 | 40 | #1,746 |
| 1989 | 45 | #1,715 |
| 1990 | 50 | #1,644 |
| 1991 | 53 | #1,596 |
| 1992 | 66 | #1,403 |
| 1993 | 78 | #1,291 |
| 1994 | 95 | #1,173 |
| 1995 | 133 | #964 |
| 1996 | 177 | #812 |
| 1997 | 171 | #840 |
| 1998 | 192 | #798 |
| 1999 | 226 | #726 |
| 2000 | 248 | #709 |
| 2001 | 272 | #668 |
| 2002 | 253 | #708 |
| 2003 | 290 | #675 |
| 2004 | 310 | #658 |
| 2005 | 418 | #565 |
| 2006 | 520 | #499 |
| 2007 | 703 | #417 |
| 2008 | 807 | #381 |
| 2009 | 905 | #347 |
| 2010 | 1,371 | #249 |
| 2011 | 1,794 | #200 |
| 2012 | 2,237 | #174 |
| 2013 | 2,649 | #149 |
| 2014 | 3,050 | #133 |
| 2015 | 3,607 | #111 |
| 2016 | 4,325 | #95 |
| 2017 | 4,848 | #80 |
| 2018 | 4,754 | #77 |
| 2019 | 4,564 | #79 |
| 2020 | 4,372 | #81 |
| 2021 | 4,223 | #84 |
| 2022 | 3,770 | #95 |
| 2023 | 3,074 | #117 |
| 2024 | 2,868 | #127 |
