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Graceyn vs Gracie

American parents have registered 84,166 Gracies since 1880, against 540 Graceyns. Gracie is still ahead, with 1,344 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Graceyn against Gracie, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Graceyn Gracie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Gracie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Graceyn had 46 and Gracie had 1,619.

Side by side

  Graceyn Gracie
Total US births 54084,166
Most in one year 463,485
Babies in 2025 131,344
Estimated living today 54066,000
Median age today 1118
Peak year 20162007
Best rank 3,411th girls96th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th227th
First recorded 20011880
Girls / boys 540 / 084,121 / 45

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Gracies alive today are over 18; half the Graceyns are over 11. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Graceyn and Gracie.