Gracelynn
Gracelynn was given to 698 girls in 2025, #442 among girls’ names; 13,268 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,200 Americans named Gracelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gracelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gracelynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gracelynn is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
Variant of Gracelyn; Grace + Lynn
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gracelynn?
#442 among girls’ names, 2025
Gracelynn fell from #390 in 2015 to #442 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.47 to 0.43 per 1,000.
1,034 babies in 2020, the peak
Gracelynn peaked in 2020, when 1,034 girls were given it, #310 among girls’ names. The 698 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 698 | #442 | 0.43 |
| 2024 | 729 | #424 | 0.45 |
| 2023 | 816 | #377 | 0.51 |
| 2022 | 892 | #355 | 0.54 |
| 2021 | 979 | #334 | 0.60 |
| 2020 | 1,034 | #310 | 0.64 |
| 2019 | 895 | #353 | 0.53 |
| 2018 | 936 | #341 | 0.55 |
| 2017 | 846 | #370 | 0.49 |
| 2016 | 880 | #371 | 0.50 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 844 | #390 | 0.47 |
| 2014 | 713 | #450 | 0.40 |
| 2013 | 528 | #555 | 0.30 |
| 2012 | 469 | #613 | 0.27 |
| 2011 | 409 | #686 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 319 | #840 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 256 | #1,023 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 226 | #1,139 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 195 | #1,263 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 156 | #1,442 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 132 | #1,548 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 100 | #1,886 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 65 | #2,503 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,904 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,483 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,699 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,005 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,442 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,628 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,293 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gracelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gracelynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gracelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gracelynn, and how old are they?
13,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 13,268 Americans ever recorded as Gracelynn. The median Gracelynn alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 6,646 people named Gracelynn (6,638 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,327 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,700 |
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 Gracelynn born?
The states with the most babies named Gracelynn are Texas, Ohio and Kentucky, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 60 | #533 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 45 | #252 | 1.7× |
| Kentucky | 38 | #114 | 2.3× |
| Florida | 34 | #536 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 29 | #247 | 2.2× |
| North Carolina | 29 | #372 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 29 | #308 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #375 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 28 | #275 | 1.6× |
| Missouri | 26 | #245 | 1.9× |
Where Gracelynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gracelynn is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1995 it was given 2.9 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 Gracelynn 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, Gracelynn is the second most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 698 of their 1,376 babies (51%), the 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 Gracelynn
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 Gracelynn and names like it
- Compare Gracelynn and GracelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGracelynn peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gracelynn since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Gracelynn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Gracelynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gracelynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.