Gracelyn

What Gracelyn means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Gracelyn yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #466 vs #3,333 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Gracelyn?

US: Falling: down from #354 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #4103 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2020, when 973 girls got the name (#321 that year). First in the US records in 1924.

How common

• About 1 in 2,439 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 36,183 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (2.48 per 1,000 girls), WV (2.17 per 1,000 girls), ME (1.93 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Gracelyn is #466 in the US and #3333 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Gracelyn were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Gracelynn698 US · 4 E&W
• Gracelynne11 US
• Gracelin6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Gracelyn

Girls

• Piper#155Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #67 in 2015, #155 in 2025
• Sofia#9“wisdom, especially divine wisdom”^*
• Brynlee#243Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies
• Avery#37Editor’s note Used for both: 82% of US babies named Avery in 2025 were girls
• Mia#6Editor’s note Steady in the US: #6 in 2015 and #6 in 2025. About 1 in 150 US girls in the 2025 records
• Serenity#129Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #129 vs #997 in 2025

For a brother

• Finn#206“the Sami”^*
• Jaxon#115Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #115 in 2025
• Kayden#135Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1989, with 6 babies
• Josiah#54Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #54 vs #226 in 2025
• Carter#45“son of Arthur”^*
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Gracelyn’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.