Meaning not yet researched.
Gracelynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 698 in 2025. Its best rank was #310 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #310 in 2020; #442 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gracelynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#442 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #310.
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Gracelynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 698 girls in 2025. Peak: #310 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 1,034 (2020).
In 2025, 698 US girls were named Gracelynn, making it the 442nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 18 places from #424 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 729 girls named Gracelynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #310, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,034. For comparison, it was #390 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gracelynn in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 6 babies. In all, 13,268 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,839 babies named Gracelynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,705 US girls were named Gracelynn; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 1,034. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,303 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gracelynn ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #114 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gracelyn (15,917 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Gracelynn 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 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 38 | #114 | #201 |
| Arkansas | 22 | #134 | #191 |
| Mississippi | 16 | #157 | #186 |
| West Virginia | 10 | #161 | #82 |
| Maine | 6 | #187 | — |
| Alabama | 23 | #192 | #145 |
| Oklahoma | 18 | #220 | #174 |
| South Carolina | 22 | #220 | #378 |
| Missouri | 26 | #245 | #332 |
| Indiana | 29 | #247 | #188 |
| Ohio | 45 | #252 | #189 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #260 | #191 |
| Tennessee | 28 | #275 | #200 |
| Iowa | 12 | #285 | #189 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #308 | #266 |
| Michigan | 29 | #308 | #277 |
| Oregon | 11 | #336 | #300 |
| North Carolina | 29 | #372 | #299 |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #375 | #471 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #431 | #538 |
| Idaho | 5 | #434 | #200 |
| Georgia | 24 | #478 | #433 |
| Kansas | 6 | #529 | #165 |
| Texas | 60 | #533 | #477 |
| Florida | 34 | #536 | #525 |
| Illinois | 18 | #552 | #584 |
| Washington | 12 | #556 | #471 |
| Maryland | 8 | #616 | #538 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #620 | #413 |
| Virginia | 12 | #621 | #380 |
| New York | 25 | #665 | #762 |
| Arizona | 8 | #773 | #546 |
| Colorado | 5 | #962 | #421 |
| California | 22 | #1,161 | #1,068 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 698 | #442 | — | — |
| 2024 | 729 | #424 | — | — |
| 2023 | 816 | #377 | — | — |
| 2022 | 892 | #355 | — | — |
| 2021 | 979 | #334 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,034 | #310 | — | — |
| 2019 | 895 | #353 | — | — |
| 2018 | 936 | #341 | — | — |
| 2017 | 846 | #370 | — | — |
| 2016 | 880 | #371 | — | — |
| 2015 | 844 | #390 | — | — |
| 2014 | 713 | #450 | — | — |
| 2013 | 528 | #555 | — | — |
| 2012 | 469 | #613 | — | — |
| 2011 | 409 | #686 | — | — |
| 2010 | 319 | #840 | — | — |
| 2009 | 256 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 2008 | 226 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 2007 | 195 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 2006 | 156 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 2005 | 132 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 2004 | 100 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,908 | — | — |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,488 | — | — |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,704 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,011 | — | — |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,446 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,633 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,298 | — | — |
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).