Gryffin
#2,239 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gryffin has been given to 1,134 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #2,239 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 97 recorded.
Babies named Gryffin, 2025
1 in 52,600
Gryffin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Gryffin?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 52,600
- 63 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 27,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,239
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 36,476 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gryffin 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 36,476 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gryffin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gryffins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gryffin was born before 2019 — so the typical Gryffin is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 45.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,114
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (510).
Is Gryffin 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
- +247
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −401
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +298
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.29×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 64.9%
- Peak was 2019 (97)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.0% average annual change
Spellings of Gryffin
Gryffin is not the most common spelling — Griffin is, with 93.6% against Gryffin's 2.0%.
Where Gryffin is used
Across 2016–2025, Gryffin was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 48,770 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
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.
Gryffin around the world
Where Gryffin 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 & Wales2010–2023#3,524in 2023
- Canada2005–2024#2,550in 2024
- South Australia2006–2009#708in 2009
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.
Gryffin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Gryffin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gryffin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.