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Graydon

#5,462 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Graydon has been given to 3,509 babies in the U.S. since 1890. In 2025 it ranked #5,462 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 100 recorded.

Babies named Graydon, 2025

1 in 195,000

Graydon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Graydon: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Graydon means

Graydon is a given name.

The naming story behind Graydon

Wikidata records Graydon as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q62381831, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,509 boys were recorded with the name Graydon between 1890 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 100 in 2010; its best national rank was #763 in 1905.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,944 in 2020 to #5,462 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,758 in 2015 to #5,462 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Graydon?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,462
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Graydon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Graydon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Graydons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Graydon was born before 1990 — so the typical Graydon is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,376
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Choose a decade

2010s — 20.8% of all recorded uses (729).

Is Graydon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,124
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,518
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,704
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.20×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.0%
Peak was 2010 (100)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#763
1905

Spellings of Graydon

Graydon is not the most common spelling — Brandon is, with 63.9% against Graydon's 0.29%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Graydon is used

Across 1910–2025, Graydon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 213,604 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  5. 5Virginia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Graydon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Graydon around the world

Where Graydon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2012
    #4,805
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1973–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Graydon

People whose public names include Graydon, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Graydon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,462
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,518
Best rank ever
#763
1905
Peak year
2010
100 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,509
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Graydon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Graydon

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Graydon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Graydon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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