Graeson
Masculine · “English "son of the steward”
Graeson is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 803 boys against 15 girls since 1880.
A grieve ran a manor, and Grayson is his son. The Old English gerēfa gave both grieve and reeve — a manorial official — and the shire-reeve, the king's officer in a county, wore down into the word sheriff.
How old is the name Graeson?
Graeson first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Graeson is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Graeson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Graeson most popular?
Graeson peaked in 2011, reaching #2437 nationally. Today it ranks #7679, 5,242 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From gerēfa to Graeson
The story of Graeson
The reeve was one of the most important people in an English village: appointed or elected from among the tenants, he organized the ploughing, accounted to the lord, and was answerable for the manor's dues. Chaucer's Reeve is a shrewd and unloved figure, and the office appears throughout the manorial records. The shire-reeve was a different and grander thing, the crown's representative in a county, and the contraction to sheriff carried the word into English law and, eventually, into the American West. Grieve survived in Scotland as the word for a farm overseer. Graeson peaks in America in 2011.
Meaningscholars disagree
English "son of the steward"
Grayson is usually read as the son of a grieve or reeve, a manor official, from Old English gerēfa. A derivation from the son of a man named Gray is also proposed. Graeson is a modern American respelling with the ae digraph. Gerēfa also gave shire-reeve, contracted to sheriff, and portreeve, the official of a port town.
How the name formed
- gerēfa
- grieve
- Grayson
- Graeson
Related forms: Grayson · Greyson
Pronouncing Graeson
GRAY-sun
Two syllables, stress on the first, with the second reduced. The ae is said as a long a; Graeson, Grayson and Greyson are pronounced identically.
Nicknames for Graeson
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1990
- Most boys named
- 201151 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2437reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- −58.3%10 in 2025, from 24
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Graeson in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Grayson in English — spelling variant
- Greyson in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Graesons among us
people named Graeson are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 170,808 born in 2025 was named Graeson
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jeston test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Graeson's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jeston climbed just as high around 1984, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jeston's path sketches the road Graeson is walking now.
Graeson sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Graeson beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Graeson in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Gray is an immediate short form and a settled name of its own.
- The occupational meaning is documented and specific.
- It is read correctly on sight by English speakers.
- Grayson and Greyson are far more common spellings.
- The ae digraph is read as ee by anyone applying the Latin convention.
- The 2010s peak dates a bearer fairly precisely.
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Frequently asked
- How many Graesons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Graeson are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Graeson in 2025?
- Graeson ranks #7679 among US boy names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Graeson?
- About 1 in every 170,808 US boys born in 2025 was named Graeson — 10 in all.
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- Graeson will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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