Grizzly
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- GRIZ-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Grizzly is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “grizzled, grey-haired”. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Grizzly mean?
English: English word, from the grizzly bear
“grizzled, grey-haired”
The grizzly bear is named for the grizzled, silver-tipped fur on its back.
Is Grizzly a girl's or a boy's name?
Grizzly is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Grizzly in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,690th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 280,000 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, 6 boys in the US were named Grizzly, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 2016.
2025 had fewer boys named Grizzly than any year since 2018.
Half of all the boys named Grizzly in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Grizzly in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,464 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,284 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,141 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,029 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,808 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,691 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
Names like Grizzly
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Henry, Fletcher, August, Otto, Major, Royal, Miller, Bellamy, Charlie, Porter, Emmett, Wylder
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
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, “Grizzly: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/grizzly, updated 20 October 2026.