# Grey (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/grey/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,108 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,056 / 1,052 (15% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 190, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 30 | 4,724 |
| 2012 | 43 | 3,666 |
| 2013 | 44 | 3,528 |
| 2014 | 81 | 2,293 |
| 2015 | 72 | 2,511 |
| 2016 | 64 | 2,717 |
| 2017 | 71 | 2,520 |
| 2018 | 68 | 2,570 |
| 2019 | 69 | 2,544 |
| 2020 | 69 | 2,509 |
| 2021 | 83 | 2,236 |
| 2022 | 57 | 2,936 |
| 2023 | 49 | 3,291 |
| 2024 | 52 | 3,094 |
| 2025 | 31 | 4,487 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 126 | 1,346 |
| 2012 | 185 | 1,042 |
| 2013 | 204 | 982 |
| 2014 | 236 | 910 |
| 2015 | 234 | 917 |
| 2016 | 321 | 758 |
| 2017 | 327 | 733 |
| 2018 | 331 | 724 |
| 2019 | 335 | 725 |
| 2020 | 302 | 778 |
| 2021 | 362 | 717 |
| 2022 | 333 | 759 |
| 2023 | 276 | 863 |
| 2024 | 276 | 876 |
| 2025 | 222 | 1,014 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,518 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 4 | 3,895 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,027 |
| 2017 | 13 | 1,812 |
| 2018 | 21 | 1,235 |
| 2019 | 24 | 1,113 |
| 2020 | 18 | 1,379 |
| 2021 | 21 | 1,250 |
| 2022 | 18 | 1,420 |
| 2023 | 13 | 1,799 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,443 |
| 2025 | 13 | 1,897 |

## People named Grey

- Grey DeLisle, American voice actress and singer-songwriter
- Grey Damon, American actor
- William Grey Walter, American-born British neuroscientist and roboticist
- Ethel Grey Terry, American actress (1882-1931)
- George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (1863–1938)
- Donald Gray Triplett, American banker and the first person to be diagnosed with autism (1933–2023)
- Jessie Street, Australian activist (1889–1970)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.