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Graycen

Gender
Unisex
Say it
GRAY-sin
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#4,049 for boys

Unisex

Graycen is a name of English origin, meaning “son of the steward”. In 2025 it ranked 4,049th for boys in the US (26 babies).

What does Graycen mean?

English: spelling variant of Grayson

“son of the steward”

Grayson is an English surname from Middle English greyve, a steward or bailiff.

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

In recent years, Graycen has been given to both girls and boys. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls and 26 boys in the US.

How popular is Graycen in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,049among boys
Babies in 2025
26about 1 in 66,000 boys
Five-year trend
Falling fastdown 61% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 26 boys in the US were named Graycen, making it the 4,049th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,731st. Its busiest year was 2020, with 89 boys. It first appears in the records in 2003. 12 girls were also named Graycen in 2025 (8,360th for girls).

Half of all the boys named Graycen in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 8,605 boys in the US were given Graycen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #23, up from #4,049 for this spelling alone.

In 2006, 78% of the babies named Graycen in the US were girls. By 2025 it was 32%, with more boys than girls since 2018.

2003Busiest: 89 in 20202025
Graycen in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202526#4,049
202428#3,894
202326#4,109
202227#3,992
202137#3,179
202089#1,731
201984#1,816
201834#3,298
201739#3,005
201631#3,523
201525#4,078
201433#3,295
201334#3,187
201228#3,711
201117#5,196
201029#3,632
200914#6,091
20089#8,319
200714#5,898
20068#8,726
20055#11,464
20040–
20037#8,636

Nicknames for Graycen

Names like Graycen

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

Other spellings of Graycen

Names related to Graycen

More English names

Every English name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Graycen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/graycen, updated 20 October 2026.