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Graylyn

Gender
Girl
Say it
GRAY-lin
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#8,360 for girls

Graylyn is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “grey + lake”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).

What does Graylyn mean?

Modern: spelling of Graylynn; blend of Gray and Lynn

“grey + lake”

Meaning borrowed from Graylynn.

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

Graylyn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Graylyn in the US?

Rank in 2025
8,360th among girls
Babies in 2025
12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling fast down 62% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Graylyn, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2019, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004.

Half of all the girls named Graylyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 56 girls in the US were given Graylyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,426, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.

2004Busiest: 20 in 20192025
Graylyn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#8,360
20246#13,472
20230–
20226#13,586
202112#8,459
202012#8,401
201920#5,982
201815#7,405
20176#14,120
201611#9,408
20156#14,477
20148#11,925
20138#11,964
20127#13,477
20110–
20100–
20090–
20080–
20070–
20060–
20050–
20045#16,092

Nicknames for Graylyn

Names like Graylyn

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

Other spellings of Graylyn

Names related to Graylyn

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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, “Graylyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/graylyn, updated 20 October 2026.