Gracelin
Gracelin was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,791 among girls’ names; 299 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gracelin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gracelin?
#13,791 among girls’ names, 2025
Gracelin fell from #8,621 in 2015 to #13,791 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 3.7 per million.
24 babies in 2017, the peak
Gracelin peaked in 2017, when 24 girls were given it, #5,422 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,791 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,117 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,547 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,698 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,764 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,036 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,987 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,856 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,422 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,140 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,621 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,542 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,284 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,944 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,943 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,017 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,156 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,143 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,183 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,403 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,500 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,583 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,267 | 6.0 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,195 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gracelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gracelin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gracelin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gracelin, and how old are they?
An estimated 297 Americans named Gracelin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 255 people named Gracelin (255 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 253 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Gracelin?
Gracelin is a less common spelling of Gracelyn: SSA has recorded 299 Gracelin and 15,917 Gracelyn since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 29,877 babies since 1880, Gracelin is the third most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,368 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gracelin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gracelin and names like it
- Compare Gracelin and GracelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGracelin peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gracelin since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Gracelin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gracelin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.