Graciela
Graciela was given to 109 girls in 2025, #1,835 among girls’ names; 16,354 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,700 Americans named Graciela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 23 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Graciela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Graciela mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Graciela is “a female given name”
Most likely from Spanish Graciela, ultimately from Latin grātia.
/ɡɾa.siˈɛ.lɐ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Graciela?
#1,835 among girls’ names, 2025
Graciela fell from #1,817 in 2015 to #1,835 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 64.4 to 67.8 per million.
428 babies in 1998, the peak
Graciela peaked in 1998, when 428 girls were given it, #574 among girls’ names. The 109 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 109 | #1,835 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 102 | #1,948 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 95 | #2,054 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 105 | #1,908 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 105 | #1,889 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 104 | #1,862 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,633 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 121 | #1,714 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,909 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 108 | #1,887 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 115 | #1,817 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 131 | #1,638 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 143 | #1,532 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 157 | #1,453 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,580 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 187 | #1,275 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 223 | #1,136 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 222 | #1,158 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 275 | #977 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 237 | #1,076 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 278 | #902 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 287 | #855 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 276 | #873 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 241 | #931 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 275 | #834 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 279 | #812 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 307 | #732 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 428 | #574 | 0.24 |
| 1997 | 287 | #745 | 0.16 |
| 1996 | 274 | #770 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 283 | #722 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 252 | #802 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 220 | #877 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 218 | #898 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 216 | #900 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 191 | #975 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 203 | #903 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 154 | #1,045 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 159 | #987 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 152 | #1,012 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 180 | #889 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 166 | #900 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 191 | #812 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 178 | #865 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 187 | #835 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 240 | #708 | 0.14 |
| 1979 | 236 | #715 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 211 | #739 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 211 | #729 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 231 | #664 | 0.16 |
| 1975 | 210 | #707 | 0.14 |
| 1974 | 242 | #634 | 0.16 |
| 1973 | 231 | #648 | 0.16 |
| 1972 | 189 | #738 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 193 | #761 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 227 | #691 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 215 | #677 | 0.13 |
| 1968 | 205 | #679 | 0.12 |
| 1967 | 213 | #657 | 0.13 |
| 1966 | 222 | #645 | 0.13 |
| 1965 | 201 | #694 | 0.11 |
| 1964 | 218 | #701 | 0.12 |
| 1963 | 189 | #750 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 193 | #744 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 236 | #674 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 173 | #777 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 224 | #668 | 0.11 |
| 1958 | 179 | #745 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 202 | #700 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 188 | #697 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 158 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 169 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1953 | 189 | #652 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 166 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1951 | 155 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1950 | 122 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 135 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1948 | 125 | #763 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 97 | #899 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 90 | #874 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 73 | #884 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 69 | #929 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 50 | #1,145 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 54 | #1,070 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 46 | #1,093 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 43 | #1,105 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 32 | #1,315 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 45 | #1,072 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,371 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 40 | #1,122 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,144 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,457 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,451 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,225 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,302 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,474 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,352 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,406 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,129 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,397 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,421 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,229 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,622 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,669 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,719 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,151 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,108 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,126 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,112 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Graciela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Graciela has been given almost only to girls: 39 boys in 109 years of records.
Girls and boys named Graciela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Graciela, and how old are they?
14,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 16,354 Americans ever recorded as Graciela. The median Graciela alive today is 38 years old; half are between 23 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 38,850 people named Graciela (38,767 women and girls, 83 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,560 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 250 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,540 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,240 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,470 |
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 Graciela born?
The states with the most babies named Graciela are California, Texas and Arizona, with 85% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 32 | #895 | 2.6× |
| Texas | 24 | #1,132 | 4.8× |
| Arizona | 6 | #958 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,985 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,543 | 0.2× |
Where Graciela is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Graciela is most over-represented in Texas: since 1916 it was given 4.8 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 Graciela 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 17,489 babies since 1880, Graciela is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 109 of their 126 babies (87%), again the 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 Graciela
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 Graciela and names like it
- Compare Graciela and GraciellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sGraciela peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Graciela since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Graciela: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Graciela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Graciela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.