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Griffith

#4,595 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly griffin + lord, through Gruffudd

Griffith has been given to 1,550 babies in the U.S. since 1899. In 2025 it ranked #4,595 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Griffith, 2025

1 in 151,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Griffith: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly griffin + lord, through Gruffudd

Welsh

What Griffith means

Griffith belongs to the name family reached through Griffith → Gruffudd → *Grifujʉð. Its meaning is “griffin + lord”.

Origin, language, and formation

Griffith is used in English. Its origins include Welsh.

Griffith comes through Welsh Gruffudd.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gruffudd and *Grifujʉð.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Griffith is pronounced /ˈɡɹɪ.fɪθ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,550 boys were recorded with the name Griffith between 1899 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1918; its best national rank was #895 in 1899.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,079 in 2020 to #4,595 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,454 in 2015 to #4,595 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Griffith?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,595
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Griffith 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Griffith. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Griffiths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Griffith was born before 1978 — so the typical Griffith is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
13.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,085
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 13.0% of all recorded uses (202).

Is Griffith 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
+530
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,484
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,859
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.69×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.6%
Peak was 1918 (26)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#895
1899

Spellings of Griffith

Griffith is not the most common spelling — Griffin is, with 97.1% against Griffith's 2.9%.

  • Griffin97.1%51,051
  • Griffith2.9%1,550

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 Griffith is used

Across 1910–2025, Griffith was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 604,656 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 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. Griffith has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Griffith around the world

Where Griffith 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
    1996–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1988–2004
    #589
    in 2004

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.

Griffith by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,595
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,484
Best rank ever
#895
1899
Peak year
1918
26 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,550
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Griffith

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

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Sibling names for Griffith

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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