Grayling
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Grayling has been given to 529 babies in the U.S. since 1950. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1959, with 61 recorded.
Babies named Grayling, 1994
1 in 743,000
Grayling over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Grayling?
Grayling had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1994
- 1 in 743,000
- 5 of 3,715,972 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 386,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1994
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 515,144 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Grayling sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 515,144 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Grayling. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Graylings were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Grayling was born before 1958 — so the typical Grayling is around 67 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 61.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 529
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 61.8% of all recorded uses (327).
Is Grayling 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1959 (61)
- Years since peak
- 66
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.3% average annual change
Spellings of Grayling
Grayling is not the most common spelling — Braylin is, with 66.3% against Grayling's 11.1%.
Where Grayling is used
Across 1910–2025, Grayling was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 597,347 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 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. Grayling has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Grayling by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Grayling
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Grayling
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.