Grayton
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 12 babies a year in the US.
Grayton by the numbers
Grayton was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 16 babies in 2013, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Grayton
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Grayton. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Graysonson of the steward8,767 in the US (2017)
- Graydonfrom the gray hill; a form of Grayden62 in the US (2017)
- Graftonsettlement with a grove or thicket16 in the US (2017)
- Graylon7 in the US (2017)
- Greysonson of the grey-haired man; a form of Grayson4,859 in the US (2017)
- Graysenson of the steward; a modern variant of Grayson335 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Grayton
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