Gray

maleStatistical record

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

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

Gray: Recorded since 2001, it reached #688 in 2021, and it stood at #2,269 in 2025.

1registrar recorded it
25times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#688highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2017–2020

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2017	#4763
2018	#4684
2020	#5493

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 22 of the 25 years from 2001 to 2025.

Official data for England and Wales, 2001–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2001
First recorded at #3134 among boys in England and Wales in 2001 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2001–2025
Highest recorded position: #688 among boys in England and Wales, in 2021 (recorded 2001–2025).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #2269 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Gray appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 22 years beginning in 2001, and has registered 440 births with the name.

Gray across 2 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.

Gray'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	#3134 (2001)	#688 (2021)	#2269 (2025)	22 of 25	440 (2001–2025)	51 (2021)
England and Wales · Girls	#4763 (2017)	#4684 (2018)	#5493 (2020)	3 of 4	11 (2017–2020)	4 (2017)

Gray 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 Gray in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	41	6 of 10	7
2010s	203	10 of 10	20
2020sbusiest	196	6 of 10	33

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 33 births a year.

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2001 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #688 in England and Wales in 2021.

Gray'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
2025	England and Wales	male	#2269	10	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1282	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1018	29	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#799	40	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#688	51	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#723	45	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#929	31	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#749	44	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#968	31	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1319	20	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1511	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2079	10	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1796	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1852	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1688	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1620	14	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1494	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2097	9	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2001 and 2025, ranked in 22 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #688, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 51 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

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.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
20 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
3separate stretches the record falls into3 separate stretches →
2 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#2,269position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
51births registered in its largest year, 202150 to 99 births →

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.

Next in the catalogue

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Renzo · #688, 20y
Mihaela · #689, 19y
Nael · #687, 20y
Raghad · #689, 22y

Gray was ranked #688 in England and Wales · Boys in 2021. 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.

Brayden#688
Daniyal#688
Emir#688
Herbie#688
Alexandros#695
Emil#695
Jamal#695
Karter#695

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2001 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #688 in England and Wales in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Gray

Gray at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Gray across 2 official records

Gray by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Gray

Gray at a glance

Gray across 2 official records

Gray by decade in England and Wales · Boys

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Gray