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Gracelynn

About 13,268 American babies have been named Gracelynn since 1995, most of them around 2020. Its origin is given as a coined name. In 2025 it ranked 442nd. About 13,000 Gracelynns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Gracelynn

By the numbers

Total US births
13,268
Estimated living today
13,000
Median age today
7
Peak year
2020
Best rank
310th
Rank in 2025
442nd
First recorded
1995

How old the living Gracelynns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 13,268 babies given the name since 1995, about 13,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a coined name

Variant of Gracelyn.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Gracelynn is most common

  • IN8.36
  • AR8.14
  • OK8.06
  • KY8.05
  • WV8.02
  • TN7.34
  • MO7.23
  • NE6.07
  • AL6.05
  • KS5.92

Across the country Gracelynn is recorded 3.72 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Gracelynns are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.

  • TX1,125
  • OH871
  • IN663
  • FL545
  • MO539
  • TN523
  • CA497
  • NC487
  • KY468
  • MI467

Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.

Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.

Names of 2020

The most popular girls’ names the year Gracelynn peaked:

All the names of 2020

Gracelynn elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Gracelynn 20 4,709th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.