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 Years
50 Years
25 Years
10 Years
5 Years
2 Years
1 Year
16,451
16,367
16,367
13,321
7,245
2,892
1,367
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 Name
Used as a Girl Name
Year
Rank
Count
Rank
Count
1881
817
6
1882
998
5
1883
1884
806
7
1885
1886
1887
986
5
1888
1889
840
7
1890
839
7
1891
896
6
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
995
6
1898
1899
1900
1901
805
8
1902
1903
816
9
1904
1905
865
9
1906
879
9
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
987
80
1984
988
81
1985
724
148
1986
754
144
1987
571
252
1988
619
232
1989
635
247
1990
601
278
1991
634
258
1992
561
328
1993
484
432
1994
403
566
1995
355
688
1996
281
990
1997
225
1,362
1998
215
1,491
1999
219
1,545
2000
230
1,468
2001
239
1,417
2002
228
1,468
2003
225
1,525
2004
241
1,367
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.