Griffyn
#5,279 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Griffyn has been given to 526 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #5,279 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 29 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% boys, 11% girls all-time.
Babies named Griffyn, 2025
1 in 184,000
Griffyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Griffyn over time
In 2025, Griffyn went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Griffyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 184,000
- 18 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 94,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,279
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 127,662 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Griffyn sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Griffyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Griffyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Griffyn was born before 2015 — so the typical Griffyn is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 468
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (194).
Is Griffyn 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
- −805
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,425
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −143
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 62.1%
- Peak was 2023 (29)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.1% average annual change
Spellings of Griffyn
Griffyn is not the most common spelling — Griffin is, with 93.8% against Griffyn's 0.86%.
Griffyn around the world
Where Griffyn 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 & Wales2016–2016#4,810in 2016
- Canada2001–2023#3,103in 2023
- South Australia1997–2005#427in 2005
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.
Griffyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Griffyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Griffyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.