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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Gray

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#1,418

down −73 places

2025 births

128

down −14 births

All-time births

5,166

2% of them in 2025

More common than

96%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2023
175 births
Best rank
#838
in 1889
First recorded
1885
#998 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1990
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
127 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2023175#1,175Peak
  2. 2021167#1,180
  3. 2022164#1,209
  4. 2019156#1,219
  5. 2020151#1,237

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #838 in 1889 · peak births 175 in 2023

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 88% boys■ 12% girls

5,166 boys · 676 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Gray has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.