Gryphon
#4,761 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gryphon has been given to 656 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #4,761 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 39 recorded.
Babies named Gryphon, 2025
1 in 158,000
Gryphon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Gryphon?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 158,000
- 21 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 81,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,761
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 109,425 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gryphon 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gryphon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gryphons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gryphon was born before 2011 — so the typical Gryphon is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 39.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 656
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (261).
Is Gryphon 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
- +1,235
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +775
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −647
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.84×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 53.8%
- Peak was 2008 (39)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.2% average annual change
Where Gryphon is used
Across 1910–2025, Gryphon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 927,945 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Virginia1 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. Gryphon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gryphon around the world
Where Gryphon 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.
- Canada1998–2022#2,959in 2022
- South Australia2004–2004#589in 2004
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Gryphon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gryphon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gryphon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.