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Gracie vs Grafton

American parents have registered 84,166 Gracies since 1880, against 1,080 Graftons. Gracie is still ahead, with 1,344 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Gracie Grafton

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 1886, when Gracie had 42 and Grafton had 5.

Side by side

  Gracie Grafton
Total US births 84,1661,080
Most in one year 3,48525
Babies in 2025 1,3449
Estimated living today 66,000570
Median age today 1827
Peak year 20071916
Best rank 96th girls1,374th boys
Rank in 2025 227th8,243rd
First recorded 18801886
Girls / boys 84,121 / 450 / 1,080

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 Graftons alive today are over 27; half the Gracies are over 18. That is 9 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 Grafton.