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Griff

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Griff has been given to 286 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1960, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Griff, 2024

1 in 304,000

Griff 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Griff: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Griff means

Griff is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Griff is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Griff is pronounced /ɡɹɪf/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 286 boys were recorded with the name Griff between 1923 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1960; its best national rank was #2,255 in 1960.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Griff?

Griff had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 304,000
11 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 157,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
210,642 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Griff 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 2024 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 210,642 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Griff. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Griffs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Griff was born before 1964 — so the typical Griff is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
21.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
241
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 21.0% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Griff 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1960 (14)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,255
1960

Spellings of Griff

Griff is not the most common spelling — Griffin is, with 78.9% against Griff's 0.44%.

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.

Griff around the world

Where Griff 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
    1998–2025
    #1,538
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1989–2007
    #680
    in 2007

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

Griff by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,255
1960
Peak year
1960
14 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
286
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Griff

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

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Sibling names for Griff

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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