Recorded 1995–2025 · United States
Graycen was most popular in 2020, when 127 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,961 that year. In 2025 it ranked #6,717, with 38 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,430 people named Graycen.
Graycen first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1995, which makes it about 30 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 31 of the 31 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,430 American births named Graycen between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,418 are estimated to be alive today.
38 American babies were named Graycen in 2025, ranking #6,717 that year.
Graycen is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 47 births a year, against 70 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -33% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Graycen is a unisex name — 55.0% of the 1,430 Americans given it were girls and 45.0% were boys. It changed hands: since 2018 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 40% girls and 60% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 1,418 Americans named Graycen are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 11 years old, and half are between 6 and 16. That is a narrow band because Graycen is a young name — it only became common recently, so almost everyone carrying it is still a child or a young adult.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org