Meaning not yet researched.
Gracelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 659 in 2025. Its best rank was #321 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #321 in 2020; #466 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gracelyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#466 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #321.
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Gracelyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 659 girls in 2025. Peak: #321 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 980 (2018).
In 2025, 659 US girls were named Gracelyn, making it the 466th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1 place from #467 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 674 girls named Gracelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #321, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 980, in 2018. For comparison, it was #354 in 2015 and #5,590 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gracelyn in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 5 babies. In all, 15,917 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 8,086 babies named Gracelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,378 US girls were named Gracelyn; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 980. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,439 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gracelyn ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #143 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gracelynn (13,268 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gracelynne, Gracelin and Gracielynn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gracelynne (424), Gracelin (299), Gracielynn (154), Gracilyn (117), Graycelynn (51), Graycelyn (27), Gracilynn (22), Gracelinn (13), Gracelen (6), Gracelan (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Gracelyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 11 | #143 | #201 |
| Montana | 7 | #153 | #239 |
| Maine | 6 | #186 | — |
| Indiana | 31 | #227 | #152 |
| Ohio | 50 | #228 | #213 |
| Tennessee | 35 | #229 | #220 |
| Kentucky | 19 | #236 | #228 |
| Missouri | 26 | #244 | #192 |
| Alabama | 19 | #251 | #272 |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #281 | #272 |
| Georgia | 35 | #296 | #377 |
| Louisiana | 15 | #311 | #202 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #314 | #248 |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | #315 | #281 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #315 | #168 |
| South Carolina | 16 | #317 | #252 |
| Iowa | 10 | #333 | #158 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #335 | — |
| Virginia | 23 | #350 | #484 |
| Michigan | 22 | #396 | #210 |
| North Carolina | 26 | #431 | #240 |
| Kansas | 6 | #528 | #175 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #542 | #295 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #564 | #261 |
| Oregon | 6 | #581 | #489 |
| Washington | 11 | #601 | #378 |
| Utah | 6 | #643 | #299 |
| Arizona | 10 | #648 | #733 |
| Texas | 46 | #669 | #575 |
| Maryland | 7 | #684 | #468 |
| Illinois | 14 | #685 | #478 |
| Colorado | 7 | #736 | #587 |
| Florida | 21 | #777 | #426 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #804 | #460 |
| New York | 18 | #875 | #608 |
| California | 25 | #1,061 | #812 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 659 | #466 | — | — |
| 2024 | 674 | #467 | — | — |
| 2023 | 630 | #487 | — | — |
| 2022 | 760 | #415 | — | — |
| 2021 | 876 | #356 | — | — |
| 2020 | 973 | #321 | — | — |
| 2019 | 961 | #333 | — | — |
| 2018 | 980 | #333 | — | — |
| 2017 | 948 | #339 | — | — |
| 2016 | 917 | #357 | — | — |
| 2015 | 925 | #354 | — | — |
| 2014 | 816 | #400 | — | — |
| 2013 | 751 | #407 | — | — |
| 2012 | 599 | #510 | — | — |
| 2011 | 623 | #477 | — | — |
| 2010 | 566 | #524 | — | — |
| 2009 | 534 | #572 | — | — |
| 2008 | 443 | #686 | — | — |
| 2007 | 355 | #809 | — | — |
| 2006 | 364 | #755 | — | — |
| 2005 | 334 | #779 | — | — |
| 2004 | 263 | #921 | — | — |
| 2003 | 230 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 2002 | 128 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 2001 | 134 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,810 | — | — |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,054 | — | — |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,098 | — | — |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,617 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,809 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,978 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,866 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,840 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,587 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,074 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,674 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,957 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,061 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,174 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,874 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,471 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,272 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,594 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,290 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,439 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,590 | — | — |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,545 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,816 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,384 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,581 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,396 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).