Greyson
- Pronunciation
- [Grey-son]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Gray-Haired: Son Of The Gray Family: Son Of Gregory.
- Origin
- English
About the Name Greyson
Greyson is a 21st-century alternate spelling of Grayson — the English patronymic surname meaning "son of the steward" or "son of Gray." The Greyson spelling (with the British E rather than the American A) emerged in SSA records starting in the late 1990s and gained traction through the 2000s and 2010s, partly through celebrity adoption and partly through a broader American naming preference for British-style spellings of traditional English names.
Greyson and Grayson are tracked separately by SSA but represent the same underlying name and share the same etymology and historical references. The Greyson spelling has accumulated enough independent volume to be counted as a distinct first name, currently sitting in the US top 200 boys' rank while Grayson sits in the top 30. Combined, the two spellings produce a top-25-equivalent volume.
The name's appeal sits in three contemporary American naming preferences: surname-style sophistication, the popular -son ending family (Jackson, Mason, Jameson), and the British-style "grey" spelling that signals slightly more refined or vintage register than the American "gray." The name reads as both modern and traditional — a quality shared by other surname-style boys' names that have surged through the 2010s. Notable contemporary bearers include American singer-songwriter Greyson Chance (whose YouTube cover of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" went viral in 2010 when he was 12, leading to a major-label music career). Common nicknames are Grey (now also a popular standalone name), Gray, and the rare Sonny. The traditional Grayson and the Greyson spelling are essentially equivalent. There are no significant international variants since the name's first-name use is recent and English-American.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Greyson
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Greyson by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2017 with 4,848 boys named Greyson (boy rank #80 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #149 for boys (2,439 US births). That's 69 places below its 2017 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Greyson Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Greyson the strongest states are Vermont, West Virginia, Kentucky.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vermont | #49 | 76 |
| 2 | West Virginia | #49 | 352 |
| 3 | Kentucky | #54 | 801 |
| 4 | Wyoming | #59 | 40 |
| 5 | Mississippi | #61 | 456 |
| 6 | Tennessee | #61 | 1,193 |
| 7 | Arkansas | #62 | 469 |
| 8 | Rhode Island | #66 | 171 |
| 9 | Indiana | #66 | 1,089 |
| 10 | Idaho | #67 | 286 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | #153 | 2,733 |
| 2 | Texas | #143 | 2,658 |
| 3 | Maryland | #138 | 447 |
| 4 | Illinois | #122 | 1,044 |
| 5 | Minnesota | #118 | 547 |
| 6 | New Jersey | #118 | 787 |
| 7 | Florida | #114 | 1,799 |
| 8 | Arizona | #112 | 744 |
| 9 | Virginia | #111 | 832 |
| 10 | New Mexico | #111 | 187 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Greyson in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Greyson against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).