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I like Grey or Gray because it reminds me of an anime character I like, Gray Fullbuster from Fairy Tail.

I prefer Grey/Gray. I like Grey, but Gray is the spelling I would use.

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I like the sound of Greyson/Grayson, but it's trendier and seems more likely to seem dated in the future.

I hate Grayson / Greyson. I think it sounds so pompous and upity. Sorry but I do, for all my life I have been told it is what posh people call their children.
However I like Grey. I write the colour as gray and therefore like the name spelt Grey much better.
I pronounce Grayson just like it's written: GRAY-son.

I pronounce it GRAY-sin, and I have never used the -a- spelling in my life; it's always grey where I live. Gray looks very foreign.

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I would never use Grey as a given name; it seems ludicrous, much sillier than all the Indigo, Scarlet(t), Blue etc names. I used to know a Greyson who is in his early 20s now; he was never called by any nickname.

With an a Gray. That was my moms maiden name!!!

Grey > Grayson > Greyson / Gray (can't pick between those two). Isn't grey the British spelling of the color and gray the American? I just kind of see it as the difference between Honour and Honor. I like the look of Grey more, the a in Gray makes it too dark for me. Grey is lighter. I like Grayson though, I knew a Grayson growing up so it doesn't seem newly trendy to me. It's hard to see names you grew up with be anything but normal in a way.

I lovee Grey/Gray but don't really care for Greyson/Grayson. Grayson/Greyson feels very trendy. Grey/Gray feels very handsome and sophisticated.

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Favourite spelling: Grey over Gray, and Grayson over Greyson

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Pronunciation: GRAY-sin

I prefer Gray/Grey over Grayson. I've never been a huge fan of "son" names. and i much much prefer Gray on a boy vs. a girl

I prefer Gray. Grey is okay but seems less masculine to me. Grayson / Greyson sounds sort of false to me ... because it is a trendy style, rhymes with the popular Mason and sounds like the popular Grace and has the trendy surnamey -son thing.

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I think my choice of which spelling to use is either random, or unconsciously influenced - I know I use both spellings. I don't know for sure that I actually do this, but I prefer "grey" when I am speaking metaphorically ... a grey mood, grey areas where you don't know something for sure, shades of grey in moral issues; and I prefer "gray" when I am talking about a literal color: gray skies, gray scarf, gray hair.

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I pretty much say GRAY-sən. Like "Gray's son," said fast without the Z sound in it. It's not a short I sound. I think if I were living in Texas and conversing with people who speak with a Texas accent, it would probably come out close to a short I sound like in chasing. But in my usual accent it's more like a neutral vowel.

This message was edited 11/1/2012, 10:12 AM