Five children with Janet Jones, seven grandchildren born between 2015 and 2025, and a family calendar that starts inside one Canadian summer

Wayne Gretzky’s 5 Kids: Paulina, Ty, Trevor, Tristan and Emma

Birth order runs Paulina, Ty, Trevor, Tristan, Emma, and it runs across fourteen years. The eldest arrived four months after her father was traded to the Los Angeles Kings; the youngest was born almost four years after he stopped playing. Every one of the five has the same two parents, so there is no second branch to untangle here and no stepchildren to place.

What dates a Gretzky family page is arithmetic, not gossip. Four of the five have birthdays between July and December, so an age list written in spring is wrong by autumn. The grandchildren move faster still: there were five in the summer of 2024 and there are seven now, after two arrivals inside five weeks in 2025.

All five children are adults, and this guide treats them that way: named credits, filed rosters, draft records and dated interviews, with the date attached to each. The seven grandchildren are children, so they get names, parents and birth dates and nothing else — no schools, no routines, no homes, no predicted careers.

Wayne Gretzky’s children at a glance

That age column has a shelf life, and it is worth knowing when it expires. Tristan turned 26 on 2 August 2026, eighteen days before this check. Trevor turns 34 on 14 September, three and a half weeks after it. Paulina turns 38 on 19 December. Two of those five numbers change before Christmas, which is why two profiles can print different ages and both be honest about the same birth dates.

Nothing on this page depends on a rumour about who the mother is. Janet Jones is the mother of all five, and the marriage that produced them is documented on Canadian television from the day it happened. What varies between the five is not parentage but paperwork: one has a draft record, one has a company, one has two college golf rosters, and two have a much narrower public file.

The 1988 summer that set the whole family calendar

Three dates, twenty-two weeks, and the shape of a family. Wayne Gretzky married Janet Jones at St Joseph’s Basilica in Edmonton on 16 July 1988, in a ceremony Canadian television carried live and the country called a royal wedding. Twenty-four days later he was a Los Angeles King. Five months after the wedding, Paulina was born.

The gap matters for reading the five of them. Paulina, Ty and Trevor grew up while their father was still on the ice, in a decade when a Gretzky child at a rink was a news item. Tristan and Emma were born in 2000 and 2003, into a retired household. Same parents, same surname, two quite different childhoods, and it shows in how much of each life is on the public record.

Janet Jones brought her own career to that marriage. She was an actress and dancer with screen credits before 1988, and she is the constant across all five biographies. The two met on the television show Dance Fever long before they married, which is the ordinary explanation for a family that ended up straddling professional sport and Los Angeles rather than only one of them.

Paulina Gretzky, 37: the eldest, and the household that added two grandsons

Paulina Mary Jean Gretzky was born on 19 December 1988 and is 37. She has worked as a model and an actress, with a credited film role in Grown Ups 2 in 2013, and she has carried the largest public profile of the five for most of her adult life. She is also the reason the Gretzky family tree grew a third generation first.

She met the golfer Dustin Johnson in 2012 and they were engaged by 2013. The wedding did not follow for nine years: they married on 23 April 2022 at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee, with their two sons already at the ceremony. Johnson won the US Open in 2016 and the Masters in 2020, and now plays on the LIV Golf circuit, where he captains the 4Aces team.

Tatum Gretzky Johnson was born on 19 January 2015 and River Jones Johnson on 12 June 2017, which makes them 11 and nine. Their grandfather’s trophy cabinet is not the interesting thing about that household; the interesting thing is that two elite sporting surnames now sit on the same birth certificates, the way they do for Tiger Woods’s two children on the other side of the same sport.

Ty Gretzky, 36: the son who turned the surname into a business

Ty Robert Gretzky was born on 9 July 1990 and turned 36 six weeks before this check. He is the child who stayed closest to hockey without playing it professionally, and his record is the most institutional of the five: a company with his name on it, camps that take bookings, and a partner venue announced by a city council.

He co-founded the Gretzky Hockey School with his father in 2014. The school is not a memory: its own site was still selling 2026 camp places when this guide was checked, including a Calgary session, alongside a partnership with the clothing label October’s Very Own. A business that takes money for dated future sessions is a live business, which is a different class of evidence from an interview about ambitions.

In April 2024 the family attached that school to bricks. A $40 million ice facility for Palm Beach Gardens in Florida was announced with two NHL-size sheets, a restaurant, a retail store and space for figure skating, curling and sled hockey, with the Gretzky Hockey School as its resident programme. “Hockey has the power to unite communities,” Wayne Gretzky said in the announcement. Reporting has since moved the opening from summer 2026 to late in the year.

Ty married Sara Cusick on 29 February 2020, a leap-day wedding in Brooklyn. They have two daughters, Sicily and Vienna, born in 2021 and 2023. Reports differ on the exact days — some place Sicily in late September 2021 and others in October, and Vienna in either May or August 2023 — so this guide gives the years the reporting agrees on and leaves the days to the family.

Trevor Gretzky, 33: a real professional baseball career, then a second one on camera

Trevor Douglas Gretzky was born on 14 September 1992 and is 33 until the middle of next month. His is the only professional playing contract in the family’s second generation, and it is a documented one rather than a family story: the Chicago Cubs took him in the seventh round of the draft on 7 June 2011, at pick 219, out of Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village.

He was a 6ft 4in first baseman who had been committed to San Diego State to play for Tony Gwynn, and a partial labral tear in his senior year had limited him to designated hitter. “It’s just so surreal,” he said on draft day. “I can’t believe it’s happened.” His father’s line was shorter: “There’s still a lot of work ahead of him but this was a special day.”

The work lasted four seasons. By March 2014 he was at Class A Kane County in the Cubs system, telling a Minor League Baseball interviewer that the big leagues had been the dream since he was small and that he was “working hard like all the other guys”. He moved into the Los Angeles Angels organisation and his playing career ended in 2016. A minor-league career that reaches full-season Class A is a real career; it is simply not a major-league one.

Acting followed, and it produced a run of credits between 2018 and 2022: Mile 22 in 2018, Odd Man Rush in 2020, then Cosmic Sin, 40-Love, Apex and Spiral: From the Book of Saw in 2021, and American Siege in 2022. That is the accurate way to put it on 20 August 2026: a credited screen actor whose most recent dated release is four years old.

He became engaged to Ashley Malinchak in April 2023 and their daughter Phoenix Shiloh was born on 28 July that year. In September 2025 they announced a son, named Wayne William after his grandfather. Trevor is the only one of the five to have been publicly paid to play a sport, and also the only one to have named a child after the man who made the surname famous.

Tristan and Emma: the two youngest, and what their records actually show

Tristan Wayne Gretzky was born on 2 August 2000 and turned 26 this month. He played golf, seriously enough to sign a national letter of intent with Pepperdine out of Oaks Christian in 2019 and to appear on the Waves roster as a freshman. He then transferred, and by the 2022-23 season he was on the NYU men’s golf roster as a junior, listed at 6ft 3in and studying real estate at the School of Professional Studies.

That NYU page is the most useful thing on the public file about him, because it is an institution describing him rather than a profile guessing. It records one tournament in 2021-22, the Jekyll Invitational, and quotes his own reason for choosing the school: “unlimited opportunities in the city while being able to compete in the sport I love”. He named professional golf or real estate as the two futures he was weighing.

Emma Marie Gretzky, born on 28 March 2003, is 23 and the youngest of the five. She went to Southern Methodist University in Dallas and has been publicly linked with the SMU tight end Stone Eby since 2022. Their son, Walter, was born in August 2025 and takes his first name from Wayne’s father, Walter Gretzky, whose backyard rink in Brantford started all of this.

On 28 July 2026 Emma announced their engagement on Instagram in eight words: “The easiest yes to a lifetime with you.” Eby played all 13 games of SMU’s 2025 season, went undrafted in the 2026 NFL draft, attended a Denver Broncos rookie minicamp that April and did not make the roster. That is the whole verified record, and it is the most recent dated milestone in the family.

Equal family status does not mean equal file size. Tristan and Emma have narrower public records than their three older siblings, because they were born into a retired household and have not sold anything, released anything or signed a professional contract. Padding their sections with guesses would manufacture a symmetry the evidence does not support.

The seven grandchildren, by household

Wayne Gretzky became a grandfather in January 2015 and has become one six more times since. The count is worth stating carefully, because it changed twice inside five weeks in 2025 and most published family trees stopped counting before that.

Two arrivals in 2025 are why a 2024 family tree now undercounts by two. Walter came in August, Wayne William in September. Anyone reading a profile that says five grandchildren is reading something written before that summer, and the same trap catches younger sporting families such as Serena Williams’s two daughters whenever a new child arrives between updates.

What each of the five is verifiably doing on 20 August 2026

A guide is only as good as the line it draws between a record and a sighting. A draft pick, a company selling dated places, a university roster, a film credit and a marriage licence are records. A photograph at an event is not. Here is the family through that filter.

Two of those rows do the real work. Trevor’s says former, because a release in 2016 ends a playing career however good the draft slot was. Tristan’s says no current employer is on the public file, which is a smaller claim than any profile that turns a real estate degree into a job title he has never publicly held.

What most Wayne Gretzky family pages still get wrong

One more habit is worth naming: writing the five as a single unit called the Gretzky kids. They are separated by fourteen years, two career eras and one retirement. Reading them as a block is how a page ends up implying a 23-year-old and a 37-year-old grew up the same way, the same flattening that shows up in Michael Jordan’s five children across two marriages and across the wider KidsCo celebrity family index.

The family timeline, and what each date proves

One date outside the family calendar still shaped it. On 6 April 2025 Alex Ovechkin scored his 895th goal and passed the career record Wayne Gretzky had held since 1994. In February 2026 their father watched Canada play at the Milan Winter Olympics and told CBC: “I’m a hockey player, I’m a Canadian, I’m a true Canadian.”

The family reads better as three generations than as a list of five names. Grandparents in Brantford, five children across fourteen years, and seven grandchildren born between 2015 and 2025 across four separate households. That is the shape other sporting dynasties take too, from Tom Brady’s three children to Novak Djokovic’s two, and it is the shape worth checking a date against.

Questions people ask about Wayne Gretzky’s five children

How many children does Wayne Gretzky have?

Wayne Gretzky has five children, all with his wife Janet Jones: Paulina, Ty, Trevor, Tristan and Emma. On 20 August 2026 they are 37, 36, 33, 26 and 23. There is no second family branch, no adoption and no stepchildren in this family.

What are the birth dates of Wayne Gretzky’s children?

Paulina was born on 19 December 1988, Ty on 9 July 1990, Trevor on 14 September 1992, Tristan on 2 August 2000 and Emma on 28 March 2003. Four of the five have birthdays between July and December, which is why undated age lists go stale so fast.

Who is the mother of Wayne Gretzky’s children?

Janet Jones, the American actress and dancer who married Gretzky at St Joseph’s Basilica in Edmonton on 16 July 1988 in front of about 600 guests. She is the mother of all five, and the couple were still married when this guide was checked.

How many grandchildren does Wayne Gretzky have?

Seven, born between January 2015 and September 2025. Paulina has Tatum and River, Ty has Sicily and Vienna, Trevor has Phoenix and a son named for his grandfather, and Emma has Walter. Two of the seven arrived within five weeks of each other in 2025.

Did Trevor Gretzky play professional baseball?

Yes. The Chicago Cubs drafted him in the seventh round on 7 June 2011, at pick 219, out of Oaks Christian School. He spent four seasons in the minor leagues, reaching Class A Kane County by 2014, and left the game in 2016. He has acted since 2018.

Who is Paulina Gretzky married to?

The golfer Dustin Johnson. They started dating in 2012, became engaged in 2013 and married on 23 April 2022 at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee, nine years after that engagement. They have two sons, Tatum and River.