How Many People Are Named Grey?
people named Grey are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 50,144 people in the US has this name
Based on 7,108 babies named Grey in Social Security records from 1913 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
445 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of GRAY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Grey in English. Counting Grey and these spellings together, about 11,725 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Grey, 15.3% were girls and 84.7% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Grey rose from 0% in the 1950s to 16.1% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Grey alive today is about 13 years old, and 89% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 16 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Grey first appears in the records in 1913 and was given most often in 2021, to 445 babies. In 2025, 253 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1913 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Grey has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #717, in 2021. In 2025 it ranked #1,014. Among girls, its best rank was #2,236, in 2021.
| Boys | Girls | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,014 | #4,486 |
| Best rank | #717 (2021) | #2,236 (2021) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #898 in the 2010s | #2,975 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Grey alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Grey were born in California than in any other state: about 527 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Grey was given 5 times as often in Utah, 1.6 times in Louisiana and 1.6 times in North Carolina.
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