Grey

maleStatistical record

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

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

Grey: Recorded every year since 2013, it reached #1,113 in 2019, and it stood at #2,443 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
16times a registrar ranked it
12years from first to last
#1113highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2017–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2017	#4063
2018	#3518
2019	#5591
2022	#5669

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 every year from 2013 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2013–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2013
First recorded at #3822 among boys in England and Wales in 2013 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2013–2024
Highest recorded position: #1113 among boys in England and Wales, in 2019 (recorded 2013–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2443 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Grey appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 12 years beginning in 2013, and has registered 160 births with the name.

Grey 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.

Grey'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	#3822 (2013)	#1113 (2019)	#2443 (2024)	12 of 12	160 (2013–2024)	24 (2019)
England and Wales · Girls	#4063 (2017)	#3518 (2018)	#5669 (2022)	4 of 6	17 (2017–2022)	6 (2018)

Grey appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2013 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1113 in England and Wales in 2019.

Grey'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	#2443	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1799	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1420	18	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1250	21	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1379	18	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1113	24	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1235	21	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1812	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2027	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	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 2013 and 2024, ranked in 12 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,113, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 24 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

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.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
12 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years10 to 19 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#2,443position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
24births registered in its largest year, 2019Under 25 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

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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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.

Nali · #1108, 16y
Santi · #1108, 11y
Zariyah · #1108, 12y
Zyon · #1108, 17y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Santi · #1108, 11y
Zariyah · #1108, 12y
Opie · #1104, 10y
Reggie-Lee · #1097, 14y

Grey 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 Grey without appearing here.

Grey moved ahead of

Nicola Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2027 and #4810.
Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3908 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2027 and #4810.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1799 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #5119.
Kelly Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3895 and #3362 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #1812 and #3449.

Moved ahead of Grey

Rune Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1420 and #1609 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1799 and #1799.

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 2013 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1113 in England and Wales in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Grey

Grey at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Grey across 2 official records

Grey appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Grey and the names beside it

Grey moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Grey

Grey at a glance

Grey across 2 official records

Grey appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Grey and the names beside it

Grey moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Grey