Gracey
Gracey was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,019 among girls’ names; 2,614 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,560 Americans named Gracey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gracey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gracey?
#5,019 among girls’ names, 2025
Gracey fell from #2,662 in 2015 to #5,019 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 37.5 to 16.2 per million.
183 babies in 2005, the peak
Gracey peaked in 2005, when 183 girls were given it, #1,241 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,019 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,993 | 22.8 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,817 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,511 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,657 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,803 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,190 | 29.8 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,635 | 24.7 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,614 | 38.8 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,776 | 35.0 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,662 | 37.5 |
| 2014 | 76 | #2,399 | 42.5 |
| 2013 | 81 | #2,290 | 46.2 |
| 2012 | 98 | #1,987 | 55.6 |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,988 | 56.3 |
| 2010 | 110 | #1,850 | 61.9 |
| 2009 | 143 | #1,577 | 77.8 |
| 2008 | 159 | #1,475 | 84.1 |
| 2007 | 146 | #1,557 | 75.9 |
| 2006 | 163 | #1,392 | 85.7 |
| 2005 | 183 | #1,241 | 99.0 |
| 2004 | 150 | #1,387 | 81.7 |
| 2003 | 166 | #1,261 | 90.9 |
| 2002 | 138 | #1,397 | 76.8 |
| 2001 | 122 | #1,525 | 67.8 |
| 2000 | 85 | #1,971 | 46.8 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,907 | 25.9 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,012 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,279 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,609 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,908 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,783 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,974 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,282 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,834 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,582 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,317 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,798 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,104 | 4.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,071 | 5.3 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,173 | 5.2 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,213 | 3.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,718 | 5.8 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,870 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,395 | 4.0 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,612 | 5.0 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,516 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gracey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gracey has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gracey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gracey, and how old are they?
2,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,614 Americans ever recorded as Gracey. The median Gracey alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,383 people named Gracey (2,371 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,397 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 95 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,830 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 623 |
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 Gracey born?
The states with the most babies named Gracey are Texas, Florida and Tennessee, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 159 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 117 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 112 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 97 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 66 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 66 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Kentucky | 54 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 53 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 51 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 45 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Gracey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gracey is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1918 it was given 1.9 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 Gracey with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Gracey?
Gracey is a less common spelling of Gracie: SSA has recorded 2,614 Gracey and 84,166 Gracie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 634,119 babies since 1880, Gracey is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 6,572 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
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 Gracey
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 Gracey and names like it
- Compare Gracey and GracieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGracey peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gracey since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Gracey.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gracey alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.