Grecia
Grecia was given to 204 girls in 2025, #1,138 among girls’ names; 6,318 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,240 Americans named Grecia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Grecia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Grecia mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Grecia is “a female given name”
Borrowed from Latin Graecia, from Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós).
/ˈɡɾeθja/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Grecia?
#1,138 among girls’ names, 2025
Grecia rose from #1,383 in 2015 to #1,138 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.13 per 1,000.
216 babies in 2006, the peak
Grecia peaked in 2006, when 216 girls were given it, #1,139 among girls’ names. The 204 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 204 | #1,138 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 208 | #1,158 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 209 | #1,159 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 154 | #1,448 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 152 | #1,422 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 153 | #1,427 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 158 | #1,418 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 160 | #1,401 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 140 | #1,567 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 165 | #1,406 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 171 | #1,383 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 143 | #1,529 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 177 | #1,326 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 192 | #1,258 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 150 | #1,492 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 129 | #1,652 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 148 | #1,533 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 169 | #1,411 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 215 | #1,185 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 216 | #1,139 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 203 | #1,146 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 202 | #1,130 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 204 | #1,082 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 155 | #1,270 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 169 | #1,206 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 157 | #1,245 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 115 | #1,492 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 124 | #1,383 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 153 | #1,187 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 98 | #1,587 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 125 | #1,322 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 113 | #1,416 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 141 | #1,230 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 122 | #1,358 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 149 | #1,172 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 113 | #1,396 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 141 | #1,162 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 167 | #988 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 133 | #1,124 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,844 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,325 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,909 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,874 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,757 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Grecia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Grecia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Grecia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Grecia, and how old are they?
6,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,318 Americans ever recorded as Grecia. The median Grecia alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 6,319 people named Grecia (6,295 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,180 |
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 Grecia born?
The states with the most babies named Grecia are Texas, California and Florida, with 71% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 61 | #522 | 3.0× |
| California | 36 | #817 | 2.4× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,141 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 11 | #875 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 9 | #710 | 2.9× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,334 | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 6 | #836 | 0.5× |
| New York | 6 | #1,905 | 0.1× |
| Utah | 6 | #644 | 0.1× |
Where Grecia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Grecia is most over-represented in Texas: since 1971 it was given 3.0 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 Grecia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Grecia
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 Grecia and names like it
- Compare Grecia and MarlenyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGrecia peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Grecia since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Grecia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Grecia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Grecia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.