Grayson
Top 1000
About Grayson
Grayson, which you might think of as a Jason-Mason substitute, has been rising through the US Top 1000 since 1984 and has ranked in the Top 100 since 2011.
That makes Grayson a modern classic boys' name, with both a sober buttoned-up feel as well as an unconventional masculine vibe. Grayson might plausibly be a banker or an artist, and its resemblance to its female counterpart Grace gives it a feminist gloss.
Grayson's biggest problem, if you consider it one, is its persistent, widespread popularity. The Greyson spelling also ranks highly in the US and throughout the English-speaking world, and a wide range of alternative spellings including Gracen, Gracyn, and Greysun have sprung up for baby girls and boys.
Last year, about 11,000 baby boys in the US were named Grayson and Greyson alone, as many s were named William or Henry, making it a solidly Top 10 name.
Pronounced GRAY-sun.
As of October 2026, Grayson ranked #51 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #32 in 2018, Nameberry popularity #287.
Editor's take: The name Grayson is a boy's name of English origin meaning "the son of the bailiff".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #63 | 6,580 | 3,425.5 |
| 2015 | #47 | 7,925 | 4,134.6 |
| 2016 | #37 | 8,692 | 4,580.2 |
| 2017 | #34 | 8,717 | 4,709.5 |
| 2018 | #32 | 8,605 | 4,738 |
| 2019 | #33 | 8,306 | 4,629.3 |
| 2020 | #35 | 7,482 | 4,334.7 |
| 2021 | #35 | 7,549 | 4,315 |
| 2022 | #37 | 7,191 | 4,118.5 |
| 2023 | #44 | 6,465 | 3,779.4 |
| 2024 | #48 | 6,211 | 3,605 |
| 2025 | #51 | 5,805 | 3,398.6 |
World rankings
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Grayson on lists
Famous Graysons
- Grayson Russell
American actor
- Grayson Bailey Dolan
Viner and Youtuber; twin brother Ethan
- Grayson Boucher
American streetball player and actor
- Grayson Perry
English ceramic artist
- Grayson Hugh
American singer,songwriter
- Grayson Hart
American rugby union player
- Grayson Allen
American college basketball player
- Grayson Mokarow (b. 2000)
son of former Miss USA Courtney Gibbs and Kevin Mokarow
- Grayson Gallanders (b. 2010)
son of actors Stacie Mistysyn and James Gallanders
- Grayson George Osmond (b. 2013)
son of Jason Osmond; grandson of musician Jay Osmond of The Osmonds
- Grayson Lee Bazyl Guess (b. 2015)
son of model Marisa Miller and Griffin Guess
- Grayson Vincent Gnoffo (b. 2016)
son of actor Joe Gnoffo and reality TV star Terra Jole Gnoffo
- Grayson Robert Guiney (b. 2018)
son of American TV host Bob Guiney
Grayson in pop culture
- Grayson Thane
character in Nora Robert's "Born in Ice," and "Born in Shame;" mystery novel writer with a troubled past, but with a good soul
- Grayson Kennedy
a character in Kelly Oram's "The Avery Shaw Experiment"
- Grayson Ellis
character on the TV show 'Cougar Town.'
- Grayson "Gray" Pierce
character in James Rollins's "Sigma Force" series
- Grayson Gilbert
character on TV's "The Vampire Diaries"
- Grayson
surname of corrupt socialite family on TV's "Revenge"
- "Will Grayson
Will Grayson,' novel by John Green and David Levithan about two young men with the same first and last name
- Dick Grayson aka Robin
Batman's sidekick
- Grayson Waverly
character in Page Morgan's "The Dispossessed" trilogy
- Grayson Hawthorne
character in bestselling Inheritance Games series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes