Girls' name · since 2015

Graelynn

128 babies named Graelynn in U.S. Social Security records since 2015, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#24,395 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#10,771 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
128
born since 2015
2020s
peak decade

Yes -- Graelynn is the #10771 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 128 recorded since 2015.

Graelynn has 128 recorded births among girls since 2015, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #10771 as of the latest data, more common than 38% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2015 to 2025.

  • #24,395 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #10,771 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 128 born since 2015
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Graelynn ranks #24,395 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,771 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 128 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.

#24,395 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#10,771 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
128
born since 2015
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%37.7%
Graelynn vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Graelynn's 128 recorded births place it above 66.2% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Graelynn compares

128 29th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Graelynn's all-time total is 66% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Graelynn Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 128 376 567,345
Peak-year births 20 21 19,840

Graelynn's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Splitting Graelynn's full recorded timeline at 2020, 55% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 45% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2017, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2018 peak of 20 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.

Graelynn popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2018)
20
Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
0510152025 20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025 9

Graelynn by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (71 births, 55% of the file).

2020s was Graelynn's strongest decade.

71 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 55% of all-time use.

Graelynn births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 71 births (55% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Graelynn?
Since 2015, Social Security records show 128 babies named Graelynn. Across the full SSA archive it ranks #24,395 of 72,339 girls' names by total births. In 2025, it holds #10,771 of 17,297 among girls. Its busiest year on record was 2018, with 20 births.
Where does Graelynn sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Graelynn ranks #24,395 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,771 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Graelynn most popular?
Graelynn was most popular in the 2020s decade with 71 total births. The single peak year was 2018.
How long has the name Graelynn been used?
Graelynn has been recorded in Social Security data since 2015, spanning 11 years of data through 2025.
What names are similar to Graelynn?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Grace, Gracie, Graciela, Gracelyn, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Graelynn: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2015–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Graelynn draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.