Gracelyn
#466 for girls in 2025, 659 births
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 973 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,917since 1924
Gracelyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Gracelyn has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #466 | 659 |
| 2024 | #465 | 674 |
| 2023 | #487 | 630 |
| 2022 | #414 | 760 |
| 2021 | #356 | 876 |
| 2020 | #321 | 973 |
| 2019 | #333 | 961 |
| 2018 | #333 | 980 |
| 2017 | #339 | 948 |
| 2016 | #357 | 917 |
| 2015 | #354 | 925 |
| 2014 | #400 | 816 |
| 2013 | #407 | 751 |
| 2012 | #509 | 599 |
| 2011 | #477 | 623 |
| 2010 | #524 | 566 |
| 2009 | #572 | 534 |
| 2008 | #685 | 443 |
| 2007 | #807 | 355 |
| 2006 | #755 | 364 |
| 2005 | #778 | 334 |
| 2004 | #920 | 263 |
| 2003 | #1,003 | 230 |
| 2002 | #1,483 | 128 |
| 2001 | #1,411 | 134 |
| 2000 | #1,705 | 103 |
| 1999 | #1,975 | 79 |
| 1998 | #2,798 | 47 |
| 1997 | #3,036 | 39 |
| 1996 | #4,059 | 26 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
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| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
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| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
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| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 |
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| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 |
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| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 |
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| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Gracelyn! It came in at #5,061, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1924–1942, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Gracelyn is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Dakota#148 · 1 in 426
- Montana#157 · 1 in 457
- West Virginia#166 · 1 in 600
- Louisiana#198 · 1 in 857
- Arkansas#222 · 1 in 814
Best ever in a state: #57 in West Virginia, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | #148 | 7 | 1 in 426 |
| Montana | #157 | 6 | 1 in 457 |
| West Virginia | #166 | 11 | 1 in 600 |
| Louisiana | #198 | 23 | 1 in 857 |
| Arkansas | #222 | 14 | 1 in 814 |
| South Carolina | #246 | 17 | 1 in 1,025 |
| Nebraska | #252 | 9 | 1 in 861 |
| Mississippi | #256 | 11 | 1 in 967 |
| Minnesota | #265 | 21 | 1 in 1,144 |
| Kentucky | #304 | 14 | 1 in 1,296 |
| Tennessee | #309 | 22 | 1 in 1,358 |
| Idaho | #311 | 6 | 1 in 1,061 |
| Ohio | #311 | 34 | 1 in 1,517 |
| Alabama | #312 | 15 | 1 in 1,231 |
| Indiana | #318 | 22 | 1 in 1,365 |
| Michigan | #323 | 27 | 1 in 1,525 |
| Iowa | #333 | 9 | 1 in 1,392 |
| Kansas | #339 | 10 | 1 in 1,316 |
| Missouri | #341 | 18 | 1 in 1,496 |
| Oklahoma | #344 | 12 | 1 in 1,374 |
| Wisconsin | #385 | 14 | 1 in 1,646 |
| Washington | #405 | 17 | 1 in 1,791 |
| North Carolina | #430 | 22 | 1 in 1,998 |
| Georgia | #491 | 21 | 1 in 2,253 |
| Utah | #502 | 8 | 1 in 2,238 |
| Maryland | #522 | 10 | 1 in 2,410 |
| Colorado | #525 | 10 | 1 in 2,240 |
| Pennsylvania | #537 | 19 | 1 in 2,776 |
| Virginia | #561 | 13 | 1 in 2,799 |
| Illinois | #629 | 18 | 1 in 3,264 |
| Oregon | #655 | 5 | 1 in 2,969 |
| Florida | #734 | 19 | 1 in 4,191 |
| Arizona | #803 | 8 | 1 in 3,872 |
| Texas | #816 | 34 | 1 in 4,656 |
| New York | #1,072 | 14 | 1 in 6,591 |
| California | #1,103 | 28 | 1 in 7,467 |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Gracelyn
- 1 spot since 2024 (#465 → #466)
- 145 spots since 2020 (#321 → #466)
- 112 spots since 2015 (#354 → #466)
- Biggest jump: 142 spots in 2005 (#920 → #778)
- Biggest drop: 73 spots in 2023 (#414 → #487)
- Debuted 1924
- Peaked 2020 at #321 (973 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 2004–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,661 girls born in 2020 were named Gracelyn (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,439 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 50.8% of all girls named Gracelyn (8,086) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #5,061 (1924) | #5,061 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,342 (1938) | #4,342 |
| 1940s | 21 | #3,448 (1947) | #4,067 |
| 1950s | 21 | #5,208 (1955) | #5,677 |
| 1960s | 13 | #5,289 (1965) | #5,649 |
| 1970s | 13 | #6,948 (1978) | #7,686 |
| 1980s | 24 | #8,391 (1988) | #10,204 |
| 1990s | 269 | #1,975 (1999) | #5,915 |
| 2000s | 2,888 | #572 (2009) | #1,012 |
| 2010s | 8,086 | #333 (2018) | #403 |
| 2020s | 4,572 | #321 (2020) | #418 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Gracelyn in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
More about 2012
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1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 2,940 of them was named Gracelyn, which outranked 97.4% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).