Grier vs Griselda
American parents have registered 9,185 Griseldas since 1880, against 756 Griers. Griselda is still ahead, with 47 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Grier Griselda
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 107 years in which either name was published, Griselda for 94 years and Grier for 13 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1916–1927 Grier ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1934–2025 Griselda ahead, apart from 2 short spells
8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Grier | Griselda | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 756 | 9,185 |
| Most in one year | 43 | 307 |
| Babies in 2025 | 26 | 47 |
| Estimated living today | 640 | 8,800 |
| Median age today | 12 | 36 |
| Peak year | 2007 | 1993 |
| Best rank | 4,475th girls | 697th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,917th | 3,296th |
| First recorded | 1916 | 1906 |
| Girls / boys | 424 / 332 | 9,124 / 61 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Griseldas alive today are over 36; half the Griers are over 12. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Grier and Griselda.