Gricelda
Gricelda was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 1,577 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,510 Americans named Gricelda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 31 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gricelda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gricelda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,060, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
60 babies in 1983, the peak
Gricelda peaked in 1983, when 60 girls were given it, #1,775 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,060 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,016 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,178 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,448 | 4.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,744 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,979 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,392 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,307 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,492 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,595 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | #11,514 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,981 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,215 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,524 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,689 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,613 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,364 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,584 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,713 | 14.8 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,229 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,898 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,043 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,770 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,271 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,159 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,752 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,518 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,117 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,777 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,354 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,518 | 26.1 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,439 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,939 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,885 | 20.2 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,928 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,152 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,963 | 18.0 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,236 | 26.1 |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,775 | 35.9 |
| 1982 | 54 | #1,953 | 31.9 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,894 | 34.2 |
| 1980 | 51 | #2,052 | 30.7 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,032 | 31.1 |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,164 | 28.1 |
| 1977 | 43 | #2,171 | 28.0 |
| 1976 | 49 | #1,873 | 33.4 |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,738 | 37.0 |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,919 | 30.7 |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,237 | 24.0 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,620 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,090 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,347 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,948 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,901 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,125 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,293 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,811 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,950 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,976 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,092 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,670 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,281 | 4.9 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,425 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,011 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,871 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gricelda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gricelda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gricelda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gricelda, and how old are they?
1,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,577 Americans ever recorded as Gricelda. The median Gricelda alive today is 41 years old; half are between 31 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 4,240 people named Gricelda (4,236 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,506 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 57 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 486 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 634 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 279 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 56 |
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 Gricelda born?
The states with the most babies named Gricelda are California, Texas and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 743 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Texas | 260 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 71 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Gricelda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gricelda is most over-represented in California: since 1952 it was given 3.8 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 Gricelda 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 Gricelda?
Gricelda is a less common spelling of Griselda: SSA has recorded 1,577 Gricelda and 9,185 Griselda since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 10,762 babies since 1880, Gricelda is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 none of their 47 babies recorded by SSA was a Gricelda (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Gricelda
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 Gricelda and names like it
- Compare Gricelda and GriseldaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sGricelda peaked in 1983.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gricelda since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Gricelda.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Gricelda alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with GMost given first.