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Gracie vs Graziella

American parents have registered 84,166 Gracies since 1880, against 565 Graziellas. Gracie is still ahead, with 1,344 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Gracie Graziella

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 1979, when Gracie had 91 and Graziella had 16.

Side by side

  Gracie Graziella
Total US births 84,166565
Most in one year 3,48516
Babies in 2025 1,34412
Estimated living today 66,000550
Median age today 1823
Peak year 20071979
Best rank 96th girls4,420th girls
Rank in 2025 227th8,362nd
First recorded 18801965
Girls / boys 84,121 / 45565 / 0

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 Graziellas alive today are over 23; half the Gracies are over 18. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Gracie Graziella
England and Wales 18,9206
France 4057,595

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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