Gracelyn
Gracelyn was given to 659 girls in 2025, #466 among girls’ names; 15,917 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,800 Americans named Gracelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gracelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gracelyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gracelyn is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
Coinage from Grace + Lyn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gracelyn?
#466 among girls’ names, 2025
Gracelyn fell from #354 in 2015 to #466 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.52 to 0.41 per 1,000.
980 babies in 2018, the peak
Gracelyn peaked in 2018, when 980 girls were given it, #333 among girls’ names. The 659 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 659 | #466 | 0.41 |
| 2024 | 674 | #467 | 0.42 |
| 2023 | 630 | #487 | 0.39 |
| 2022 | 760 | #415 | 0.46 |
| 2021 | 876 | #356 | 0.53 |
| 2020 | 973 | #321 | 0.60 |
| 2019 | 961 | #333 | 0.57 |
| 2018 | 980 | #333 | 0.58 |
| 2017 | 948 | #339 | 0.55 |
| 2016 | 917 | #357 | 0.52 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 925 | #354 | 0.52 |
| 2014 | 816 | #400 | 0.46 |
| 2013 | 751 | #407 | 0.43 |
| 2012 | 599 | #510 | 0.34 |
| 2011 | 623 | #477 | 0.35 |
| 2010 | 566 | #524 | 0.32 |
| 2009 | 534 | #572 | 0.29 |
| 2008 | 443 | #686 | 0.23 |
| 2007 | 355 | #809 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 364 | #755 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 334 | #779 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 263 | #921 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 230 | #1,003 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 128 | #1,484 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 134 | #1,411 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,709 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,983 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,807 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,051 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,093 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,612 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,803 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,972 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,859 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,833 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,581 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,067 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,669 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,952 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,057 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,172 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,872 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,470 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,271 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,592 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,289 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,437 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,588 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,543 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,814 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,579 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,394 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gracelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gracelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gracelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gracelyn, and how old are they?
15,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 15,917 Americans ever recorded as Gracelyn. The median Gracelyn alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 10,027 people named Gracelyn (10,016 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,494 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 28 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 18 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 125 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,800 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Gracelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Gracelyn are Ohio, Texas and Georgia, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 50 | #228 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 46 | #669 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 35 | #296 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 35 | #229 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | #315 | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 31 | #227 | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 26 | #431 | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 26 | #244 | 1.5× |
| California | 25 | #1,061 | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 23 | #350 | 0.8× |
Where Gracelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gracelyn is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1924 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gracelyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,221 babies since 1880, Gracelyn is the most given (53% of them). In 2025 it was given to 659 of their 1,376 babies (48%), the second most given that year.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gracelyn | 15,917 | 659 | 2018 |
| Gracelynn | 13,268 | 698 | 2020 |
| Gracelin | 299 | 6 | 2017 |
| Graclyn | 276 | 5 | 2015 |
| Gracielynn | 154 | 8 | 2012 |
| Graclynn | 139 | under 5 | 2019 |
| Gracilyn | 117 | under 5 | 2011 |
| Graycelynn | 51 | under 5 | 2014 |
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 Gracelyn
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 Gracelyn and names like it
- Compare Gracelyn and GracelynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGracelyn peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gracelyn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Gracelyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Gracelyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gracelyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.