Gray

My son's name is Gray. It is a very old name from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. It derives from Grayson: "Son of the Bailiff." By itself, in it's shortened form, it means "Old." It has NOTHING to do with the color grey. At all. Not sure why people keep saying that. It's a beautiful name, I think.

Hello all of you. My name's Gray. It was my grandmother's middle name (she came from Scotland). Her brothers also had the name Gray as a middle name. Originally, it seems, Gray was the name of a village in Normandy, and our very distant ancestor came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066. How the family managed to acquire lands in Scotland I don't know.

Gray is sometimes used as a nickname for Graham.

The word "gray" derives from the ancient Greek word "graios", "graia", meaning "old". In Greek mythology the Graiai were the three sisters Deino, Enyo and Pamphredo.