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How popular is “Grayson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Grayson” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Grayson” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Grayson” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Grayson” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Grayson” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Grayson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Grayson” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1905 6 0.000014154 6 -100%
1908 6 0.000012279 6 -100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 -100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1912 12 0.000012145 12 -100%
1913 15 0.000013191 15 -100%
1914 15 0.000010591 15 -100%
1915 27 0.000014735 27 -100%
1916 24 0.000012407 24 -100%
1917 26 0.000012956 26 -100%
1918 25 0.000011515 25 -100%
1919 35 0.000016586 35 -100%
1920 28 0.000012375 28 -100%
1921 21 0.000008995 21 -100%
1922 32 0.000013979 32 -100%
1923 30 0.000013029 30 -100%
1924 28 0.000011757 28 -100%
1925 28 0.000012 28 -100%
1926 26 0.000011325 26 -100%
1927 22 0.000009485 22 -100%
1928 26 0.0000115 26 -100%
1929 32 0.000014597 32 -100%
1930 16 0.000007197 16 -100%
1931 39 0.000018533 39 -100%
1932 20 0.000009473 20 -100%
1933 16 0.000008002 16 -100%
1934 20 0.00000963 20 -100%
1935 11 0.000005263 11 -100%
1936 25 0.000012033 25 -100%
1937 22 0.000010325 22 -100%
1938 25 0.000011299 25 -100%
1939 18 0.000008169 18 -100%
1940 17 0.000007383 17 -100%
1941 33 0.000013544 33 -100%
1942 26 0.000009517 26 -100%
1943 25 0.000008857 25 -100%
1944 27 0.000010037 27 -100%
1945 15 0.000005654 15 -100%
1946 19 0.000005946 19 -100%
1947 24 0.000006662 24 -100%
1948 37 0.000010717 37 -100%
1949 18 0.000005165 18 -100%
1950 29 0.000008278 29 -100%
1951 25 0.000006787 25 -100%
1952 29 0.000007636 29 -100%
1953 23 0.000005968 23 -100%
1954 28 0.000007034 28 -100%
1955 25 0.000006227 25 -100%
1956 24 0.000005821 24 -100%
1957 26 0.000006187 26 -100%
1958 16 0.00000387 16 -100%
1959 22 0.000005291 22 -100%
1960 36 0.000008667 36 -100%
1961 27 0.000006518 5 22 -63%
1962 26 0.000006443 26 -100%
1963 24 0.000006063 24 -100%
1964 26 0.000006688 26 -100%
1965 18 0.000004965 18 -100%
1966 31 0.000008919 31 -100%
1967 37 0.000010899 37 -100%
1968 28 0.000008288 28 -100%
1969 40 0.00001151 6 34 -70%
1970 45 0.000012477 45 -100%
1971 42 0.000012236 7 35 -67%
1972 36 0.000011454 7 29 -61%
1973 27 0.00000895 27 -100%
1974 36 0.000011842 36 -100%
1975 45 0.000014904 45 -100%
1976 40 0.000013183 40 -100%
1977 35 0.000011018 35 -100%
1978 50 0.000015754 5 45 -80%
1979 62 0.000018635 6 56 -81%
1980 77 0.000022354 8 69 -79%
1981 53 0.000015321 5 48 -81%
1982 63 0.000017959 7 56 -78%
1983 85 0.000024543 9 76 -79%
1984 105 0.000030097 5 100 -90%
1985 147 0.000041187 11 136 -85%
1986 145 0.000040764 10 135 -86%
1987 163 0.000045207 10 153 -88%
1988 165 0.000044654 13 152 -84%
1989 180 0.000046821 11 169 -88%
1990 241 0.000060974 13 228 -89%
1991 252 0.000064694 13 239 -90%
1992 298 0.000077578 19 279 -87%
1993 315 0.000083548 22 293 -86%
1994 409 0.000110016 24 385 -88%
1995 650 0.000177491 118 532 -64%
1996 692 0.000189735 110 582 -68%
1997 754 0.000207957 96 658 -75%
1998 843 0.000229188 118 725 -72%
1999 938 0.000253934 126 812 -73%
2000 1086 0.000287309 160 926 -71%
2001 1065 0.000284501 190 875 -64%
2002 1085 0.00029024 156 929 -71%
2003 1163 0.000305866 138 1025 -76%
2004 1355 0.000354626 159 1196 -77%
2005 1470 0.00038233 162 1308 -78%
2006 1824 0.00046105 143 1681 -84%
2007 2044 0.000511296 191 1853 -81%
2008 2270 0.00057751 154 2116 -86%
2009 2368 0.000619867 110 2258 -91%
2010 3492 0.000944872 133 3359 -92%
2011 4055 0.001108592 115 3940 -94%
2012 4894 0.001338121 177 4717 -93%
2013 5720 0.001568986 163 5557 -94%
2014 6746 0.001820107 166 6580 -95%
2015 8095 0.002187299 170 7925 -96%
2016 8849 0.002412027 157 8692 -96%
2017 8846 0.002473579 129 8717 -97%
2018 8719 0.002479879 114 8605 -97%
2019 8396 0.002418946 90 8306 -98%
2020 7578 0.00226847 96 7482 -97%
2021 7643 0.002255937 94 7549 -98%
2022 7281 0.002152146 90 7191 -98%
2023 6520 0.001969077 55 6465 -98%
2024 6254 0.001878924 43 6211 -99%

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