Griffin

What Griffin means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Griffin yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #222 vs #1,035 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Griffin?

US: Steady: #236 in 2015, #222 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1380 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 1,728 boys got the name (#214 that year). First in the US records in 1881.

How common

• About 1 in 1,050 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 9,377 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NH (5.99 per 1,000 boys), VT (5.78 per 1,000 boys), ME (4.68 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Griffin is #222 in the US and #1035 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.7% of US babies named Griffin were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Gryffin63 US
• Griffyn18 US
• Griffen17 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Griffin

Boys

• Noah#2Editor’s note Steady in the US: #1 in 2015 and #2 in 2025. About 1 in 84 US boys in the 2025 records
• Jonah#128“dove”^*
• Jack#15Short form of John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*
• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Parker#102From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Lane#250Editor’s note Up from #297 in 2015 to #250 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Kennedy#85“head + ugly”^*
• Zoe#31Variant of Zoë, meaning “life”^*
• Maya#62Editor’s note Steady in the US: #68 in 2015 and #62 in 2025. About 1 in 430 US girls in the 2025 records
• Madelyn#70Editor’s note Down from #59 in 2015 to #70 in 2025 in the US
• Riley#48“rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Griffin’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.