Grayson

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Grayson: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Grayson: Recorded every year since 2005, it reached #44 in 2022, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
55times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#44highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2005–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#3208
2006	#3385
2007	#1440
2008	#987
2009	#972
2010	#503
2011	#392
2012	#336
2013	#231
2014	#218
2015	#172
2016	#139
2017	#109
2018	#83
2019	#72
2020	#66
2021	#68
2022	#71
2023	#78
2024	#90

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 2005 to 2024.

In 2025: #97 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, #244 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 2005–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2005
First recorded at #3208 among boys in England and Wales in 2005 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2014–2023
Highest recorded position: #44 among boys in New Zealand, in 2022 (recorded 2014–2023).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #97 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 2025.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys

Grayson appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 20 years beginning in 2005, and has registered 7,636 births with the name.

Grayson across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Grayson's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#3208 (2005)	#66 (2020)	#90 (2024)	20 of 20	7,636 (2005–2024)	903 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#403 (2012)	#106 (2020)	#202 (2024)	10 of 13	101 (2012–2024)	25 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#609 (2014)	#175 (2021)	#244 (2025)	12 of 12	224 (2014–2025)	31 (2021)
New Zealand · Boys	#75 (2014)	#44 (2022)	#62 (2023)	10 of 10	695 (2014–2023)	85 (2019)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#93 (2024)	#93 (2024)	#97 (2025)	2 of 2	180 (2024–2025)	90 (2024)

Grayson by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Grayson in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	76	5 of 10	15
2010s	3,707	10 of 10	371
2020sbusiest	3,853	5 of 10	771

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 771 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births rose by 161, from 427 to 588.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Grayson appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 2005 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #44 in New Zealand in 2022.

Grayson's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#90	586	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#78	665	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#71	815	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#68	903	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#66	884	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#72	822	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#83	742	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#109	588	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#139	427	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#172	340	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#218	262	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#231	224	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#336	132	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#392	100	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#503	70	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#972	27	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#987	26	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1440	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2025	New South Wales, Australia	male	#97	90	Insufficient	Not yet available
2024	New South Wales, Australia	male	#93	90	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	male	#62	65	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	male	#44	85	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	male	#51	81	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	male	#67	70	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	male	#58	85	High	Verified
2018	New Zealand	male	#98	50	High	Verified
2017	New Zealand	male	#78	69	High	Verified
2016	New Zealand	male	#91	56	High	Verified
2015	New Zealand	male	#75	74	High	Verified
2014	New Zealand	male	#75	60	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#202	10	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#249	7	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#221	9	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#176	13	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#106	25	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#209	10	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#195	11	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#250	7	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#281	6	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#403	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#244	19	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#240	18	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#198	25	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#184	28	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#175	31	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#250	19	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#202	26	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#247	20	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#317	13	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#298	15	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#503	6	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#609	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#62	80	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 2005 and 2025, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #44, first reached in 2022.

It held a top-100 place in 12 years, 12 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 903 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2012, and 19 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Nate · #46, 26y
Bodhi · #61, 22y
Harlow · #66, 18y
Harper · #2, 26y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Koa · #50, 15y
Nevaeh · #38, 25y
Nova · #59, 24y
Bodhi · #61, 22y

Grayson was ranked #44 in New Zealand · Boys in 2022. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Grayson and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Grayson without appearing here.

Grayson moved ahead of

Braxton Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3208 and #2418 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #503 and #4678.
Graeme Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3385 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #972 and #4527.
Maddison Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3385 and #3385 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1440 and #4333.
Morten Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3385 and #3385 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1440 and #4333.

Moved ahead of Grayson

Albie Compare
In 2020 they stood at #106 and #132 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2021 that had become #176 and #109.
Hudson Compare
In 2015 they stood at #75 and #77 in New Zealand · Boys; by 2016 that had become #91 and #73.
Ezra Compare
In 2014 they stood at #75 and #88 in New Zealand · Boys; by 2015 that had become #75 and #61.
Theo Compare
In 2014 they stood at #75 and #89 in New Zealand · Boys; by 2015 that had become #75 and #66.

Moved the opposite way to Grayson

Aaron Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Grayson went from #3208 to #90 while Aaron went from #45 to #154.
Alan Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Grayson went from #3208 to #90 while Alan went from #241 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Grayson went from #3208 to #90 while Alex went from #53 to #171.
Alexander Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Grayson went from #3208 to #90 while Alexander went from #22 to #36.

Moved the same way as Grayson

Albie Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Grayson went from #3208 to #90 and Albie from #426 to #19.
Alfred Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Grayson went from #3208 to #90 and Alfred from #166 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Grayson went from #3208 to #90 and Archie from #38 to #10.
Arlo Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Grayson went from #3208 to #90 and Arlo from #766 to #15.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 2005 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #44 in New Zealand in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Grayson

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Grayson across 5 official records

Grayson by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Grayson across 5 official records

Grayson by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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