Greylen
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- GRAY-lun
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #5,859 for boys
Greylen is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,859th for boys in the US (15 babies).
Where does Greylen come from?
Modern: spelling of Greylan; blend of Grey and the -lan ending of names like Rylan
Meaning borrowed from Greylan.
Is Greylen a girl's or a boy's name?
Greylen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Greylen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,859th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 110,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 15 boys in the US were named Greylen, making it the 5,859th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2024, with 19 boys. It first appears in the records in 2017.
Half of all the boys named Greylen in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 69 boys in the US were given Greylen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,836, up from #5,859 for this spelling alone.
Greylen in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,859 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,063 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,762 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,813 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
Names like Greylen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden, Braylen, Brecken, Rayden, Kyaire, Cassian, Jettson, Oren, Sevyn, Henry, Kyden, Grayden
Other spellings of Greylen
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
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, “Greylen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/greylen, updated 20 October 2026.