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Gracie vs Gracin

American parents have registered 84,166 Gracies since 1880, against 734 Gracins. Gracie is still ahead, with 1,344 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Gracie Gracin

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 2010, when Gracie had 2,435 and Gracin had 82.

Side by side

  Gracie Gracin
Total US births 84,166734
Most in one year 3,48582
Babies in 2025 1,344under 5
Estimated living today 66,000730
Median age today 1815
Peak year 20072010
Best rank 96th girls2,118th boys
Rank in 2025 227thunranked
First recorded 18802002
Girls / boys 84,121 / 45219 / 515

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 Gracins are over 15. That is 3 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: Gracie and Gracin.