Meaning not yet researched.
Gracen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,805 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,805 in 2017; #2,954 in 2025. About 67% of babies named Gracen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,954 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,805.
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Gracen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,805 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 84 (2017).
In 2025, 42 US boys were named Gracen, making it the 2,954th most common boys’ name of the year, down 345 places from #2,609 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 51 boys named Gracen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,805, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 84. For comparison, it was #1,964 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Gracen, making it the 5,787th most common girls’ name of the year, down 845 places from #4,942 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 27 girls named Gracen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,691, reached in 2003. The most girls given the name in a single year was 126, in 2016. For comparison, it was #2,045 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gracen in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 7 babies. In all, 3,531 US babies have been given the name, 63% of them girls and 37% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,527 babies named Gracen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 639 US boys were named Gracen; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 84. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,668 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Grace (536,340 babies since 1880), Gretchen (53,837 babies since 1880), Graysen (5,182 babies since 1880) and Gracyn (4,326 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Graceann 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Graceann (1,032).
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 Gracen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,787 | 42 | #2,954 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,942 | 51 | #2,609 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,042 | 40 | #3,077 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,337 | 75 | #2,028 |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,085 | 44 | #2,835 |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,070 | 63 | #2,196 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,611 | 75 | #1,963 |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,313 | 83 | #1,828 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,366 | 84 | #1,805 |
| 2016 | 126 | #1,696 | 82 | #1,835 |
| 2015 | 96 | #2,045 | 74 | #1,964 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,566 | 67 | #2,085 |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,368 | 70 | #1,979 |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,457 | 66 | #2,077 |
| 2011 | 80 | #2,331 | 60 | #2,181 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,709 | 54 | #2,362 |
| 2009 | 80 | #2,406 | 47 | #2,631 |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,281 | 31 | #3,514 |
| 2007 | 86 | #2,261 | 38 | #3,045 |
| 2006 | 99 | #2,007 | 33 | #3,251 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,034 | 24 | #3,859 |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,930 | 23 | #3,913 |
| 2003 | 113 | #1,691 | 12 | #6,001 |
| 2002 | 88 | #1,994 | 13 | #5,516 |
| 2001 | 87 | #1,972 | 9 | #7,112 |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,836 | 9 | #7,027 |
| 1999 | 76 | #2,045 | 5 | #10,490 |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,170 | 7 | #7,874 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,570 | 7 | #7,563 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,099 | 5 | #9,519 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,803 | 5 | #9,344 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,880 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,979 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,917 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,069 | — | — |
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).