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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Grey

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#1,014

down −138 places

2025 births

222

down −54 births

All-time births

6,056

4% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2021
362 births
Best rank
#717
in 2021
First recorded
1913
#2,359 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2008
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
103 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 2021362#717Peak
  2. 2019335#725
  3. 2022333#759
  4. 2018331#724
  5. 2017327#733

Rank over time

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

Best rank #717 in 2021 · peak births 362 in 2021

Boys and girls

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

● 85% boys■ 15% girls

6,056 boys · 1,052 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 Grey has ranked, decade by decade

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