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 #1,897 in 2025.

1registrar recorded it
17times a registrar ranked it
13years from first to last
#1113highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2017–2022

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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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 2025.

Official data for England and Wales, 2013–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

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 recorded2013–2025
Highest recorded position: #1113 among boys in England and Wales, in 2019 (recorded 2013–2025).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #1897 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
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 13 years beginning in 2013, and has registered 173 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)	#1897 (2025)	13 of 13	173 (2013–2025)	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.

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2013 to 2025. 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
2025	England and Wales	male	#1897	13	High	Verified
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.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2013 and 2025, ranked in 13 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 →
13 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years10 to 19 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#1,897position in 2025, 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.

Grethe · #13, 60y
Gretta · #331, 19y
Greyson · #290, 17y
Griff · #818, 24y

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.

Eliyana · #1110, 11y
Nali · #1108, 17y
Zyon · #1108, 18y
Maxi · #1119, 18y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

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

Eliyana · #1110, 11y
Opie · #1104, 11y
Kairav · #1124, 15y
Reggie-Lee · #1097, 15y

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 2,576 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
In 2015 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2027 and #4810.
Nils
In 2015 they stood at #3908 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2027 and #4810.
Graham
In 2023 they stood at #1799 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2443 and #5119.
Carol
In 2015 they stood at #3908 and #2707 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2027 and #4023.

Moved ahead of Grey

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

Moved the opposite way to Grey

Aaron
Between 2013 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Grey went from #3822 to #1897 while Aaron went from #81 to #180.
Alan
Between 2013 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Grey went from #3822 to #1897 while Alan went from #185 to #539.
Alex
Between 2013 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Grey went from #3822 to #1897 while Alex went from #65 to #207.
Alexander
Between 2013 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Grey went from #3822 to #1897 while Alexander went from #24 to #40.

Moved the same way as Grey

Albie
Between 2013 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Grey went from #3822 to #1897 and Albie from #139 to #21.
Alfred
Between 2013 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Grey went from #3822 to #1897 and Alfred from #136 to #76.
Andrea
Between 2013 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Grey went from #3822 to #1897 and Andrea from #3315 to #1798.
Arlo
Between 2013 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Grey went from #3822 to #1897 and Arlo from #189 to #15.

What is known about Grey

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 1 official registrar, 2013–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 2025. 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

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Grey at a glance

Grey across 2 official records

Grey appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 2010s

Grey and the names beside it

Grey moved ahead of

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