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Griffin name image The name Griffin is of English origin, and is derived from the name of a mythological creature.  The table below indicates the number of times the name Griffin has been given to baby boys in recent years.  The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.  The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years. 

Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Griffin
Use of the Name Griffin for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years50 Years25 Years10 Years5 Years2 Years1 Year
16,45116,36716,36713,3217,2452,8921,367
The table below indicates the number of times the name Griffin has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.  Griffin first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1881, which is the first year shown on the table.  A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Griffin
 Used as a Boy NameUsed as a Girl Name
YearRankCountRankCount
18818176  
18829985  
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18848067  
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18879865  
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18898407  
18908397  
18918966  
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19038169  
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19058659  
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198398780  
198498881  
1985724148  
1986754144  
1987571252  
1988619232  
1989635247  
1990601278  
1991634258  
1992561328  
1993484432  
1994403566  
1995355688  
1996281990  
19972251,362  
19982151,491  
19992191,545  
20002301,468  
20012391,417  
20022281,468  
20032251,525  
20042411,367  
Totals:  16,451 0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Griffin as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name.  Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Griffin appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 34 times during the last 125 years.


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