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Gracie vs Grahm

American parents have registered 84,166 Gracies since 1880, against 692 Grahms. Gracie is still ahead, with 1,344 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Gracie Grahm

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 1993, when Gracie had 121 and Grahm had 19.

Side by side

  Gracie Grahm
Total US births 84,166692
Most in one year 3,48536
Babies in 2025 1,34410
Estimated living today 66,000680
Median age today 1817
Peak year 20072008
Best rank 96th girls3,165th boys
Rank in 2025 227th7,679th
First recorded 18801976
Girls / boys 84,121 / 450 / 692

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.

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