Gracelyn — #467 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Gracelyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 15,240 babies named Gracelyn between 1924 and 2024, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gracelyn currently holds the #467 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 980 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gracelyn performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 8,083 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Gracelyn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,154 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Gracelyn in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gracelyn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 15,240 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.