Gracious — #12702 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Gracious

The Social Security Administration has registered 199 babies named Gracious between 1999 and 2024, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gracious currently holds the #12702 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 14 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gracious performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 87 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Gracious shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gracious 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 199 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.