Grayson is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The first name Grayson is one of the top 100 most popular boys names in the US – currently at #43 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Grayson, accounting for approximately 0.40 % of all newborn boys. In the entire USA, approximately 109,932 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Grayson. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Grayson was originally primarily a surname whose origin is not one hundred percent clear. It may be either an anglicization of the Scottish or Irish clan surnames Grierson or Gray, meaning ‘son of Gray’ or derived from the English surname Gravesson, meaning ‘son of the reeve’.
Grayson Perry (*1960)
Sir Grayson Perry is an English contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries and cross-dressing. He has a very unusual style, often inspired by pop art and kitsch, and has a predilection for themes of identity, class and gender. Perry has won several awards, including the Turner Prize in 2003, and is also a well-known author and television personality. He has written several books and made documentaries about his work and ideas.
Grayson Allen (*1995)
Grayson Allen is an American basketball player who plays in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He began his career at Duke University, where he was the consensus ACC Player of the Year during his senior season in 2017/2018. He was selected in the first round of the 2018 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz, and subsequently struggled to establish himself with the team. He was later acquired by the Memphis Grizzlies, where he improved before being traded to the Boston Celtics.
When you hear the name Grayson, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Grayson? Are you also called Grayson? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
is a 1,500-acre (6.1 sq km) reservoir in Kentucky. It is the main attraction of Grayson Lake State Park.
A small village in the ward of Harrington, Cumbria is named Grayson Green.
you can go to Grayson High School in the town of Grayson. There are several other places in the United States that bear the same name, for example in Ohia and Utah.
This is a real surprise! Grayson is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off in the 21st century. In the year 2018, it reached its best rank at #31 according to our SmartGenius statistics. This makes Grayson much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. While the name Grayson was observed for the first time ever in 1905, it now seems to have found its place in the zeitgeist of the 21st century. In 2018, the year of its highest popularity, the name was given a total of 8,699 times. Whether this beautiful boys' name can repeat or even exceed its previous best ranking in the coming years remains to be seen, but the prospects are promising given the positive trend.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Grayson was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Grayson ranked #36 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby boys a total of 7,237 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its popularity in the early years of this millennium, there is a good chance that Grayson will not disappear from the screen anytime soon.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Grayson occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Grayson is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Grayson is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 107,408 men and boys of all generations bear the name Grayson – that is one in 1,554. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Nevada, where one in 400 men and boys is called Grayson, while it is particularly rare in New York, where you have to ask an average of 3,407 men for their name to get Grayson as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is not really common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with G. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With seven letters, the name Grayson has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 2.8% of all boys' names beginning with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with G that are quite popular, the most common at present is George.
If your name is Grayson and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Grayson, you can simply say:
Goat
Rocket
Apple
Yoyo
Sun
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Grayson sounds like this:
