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Grae

Boy · GRAY · English

Grae is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “grey”. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).

What does Grae mean?

English: respelling of Grey or Gray

“grey”

Respelling of Grey, from an English surname for a grey-haired person.

Say it
GRAY

Is Grae a girl's or a boy's name?

Grae is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Grae in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2018, with 5 boys.

2016Busiest: 5 in 20182023
Grae in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20234#4,335
20220–
20211#6,364
20204#4,025
20193#4,913
20185#3,596
20173#4,995
20163#5,015

How popular is Grae in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,675among boys
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 170,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadydown 23% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Grae, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,037th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 18 boys. It first appears in the records in 1992.

Half of all the boys named Grae in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 360 boys in the US were given Grae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #692, up from #7,675 for this spelling alone.

1992Busiest: 18 in 20202025
Grae in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202510#7,675
20249#8,307
202315#5,922
202212#6,822
202114#6,027
202018#5,037
201917#5,336
20189#8,150
20178#8,835
201611#7,152
20150–
20140–
20130–
20127#9,703
20110–
20106#10,759
20096#10,989
20087#9,864
20070–
20060–
20050–
20040–
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19996#8,697
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19937#6,809
19928#6,120

Names like Grae

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Grae

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