Grayden is a modern American name formed from Gray, the color word "gray", with the -den ending of Jayden, Braden and Hayden; it can also be read as a respelling of Graydon, an English surname and place name. It has no long history and rode the wave of the rhyming -ayden names of the 2000s. Grayden peaked at number 1,206 in 2008, close to the height of that trend, and has drifted down to number 2,690 in 2025, with 48 births.