Gracelynn

#442 in 2025Girls' name

Combination of Grace and Lynn

Gracelynn has been given to 13,268 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #442 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 1,034 recorded.

Babies named Gracelynn, 2025

1 in 4,750

Gracelynn over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gracelynn: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of Grace and Lynn

coinages

What Gracelynn means

Gracelynn is a compound of Grace and Lynn.

Origin, language, and formation

Gracelynn is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Gracelynn is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Grace, Lynn and Gracelyn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,268 girls were recorded with the name Gracelynn between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,034 in 2020; its best national rank was #310 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #310 in 2020 to #442 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #390 in 2015 to #442 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gracelynn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 4,750; 698 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 2,300; 0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025: #442; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 3,293 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Gracelynn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 1002%

School of 50010%

Put another way: gather 3,293 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gracelynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gracelynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gracelynn was born before 2018 — so the typical Gracelynn is around 7 today.

Median birth year: 2018; About 7 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 51.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 99.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 13,268; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 51.5% of all recorded uses (6,839).

Is Gracelynn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −18; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −132; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −52; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.83×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 67.5%; Peak was 2020 (1,034)
Years since peak: 5; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 14.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #310; 2020

Spellings of Gracelynn

Gracelynn is not the most common spelling — Raelynn is, with 44.7% against Gracelynn's 17.1%.

Raelynn44.7%34,671
Gracelyn20.5%15,917
Gracelynn17.1%13,268
Braelynn12.7%9,829
Acelynn1.7%1,304
Graceann1.3%1,032
Jacelynn1.2%959
Graceyn0.70%540

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gracelynn is used

Across 2016–2025, Gracelynn was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 311 girls, against 1 in 1,587 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 20,000).

5322 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1West Virginia1 in 311
2Kentucky1 in 490
3Arkansas1 in 535
4Mississippi1 in 606
5Missouri1 in 676
6Oklahoma1 in 685
7Indiana1 in 690
8Nebraska1 in 704

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Gracelynn is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 82% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Gracelynn around the world

Where Gracelynn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2018–2025
#4,867
in 2025
Canada
2003–2024
#1,286
in 2024
South Australia
2005–2005
#775
in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gracelynn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #442
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 132
Best rank ever: #310; 2020
Peak year: 2020; 1,034 that year
First recorded: 1995
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 13,268
Count in 2025: 698

Names similar to Gracelynn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Gracelyn Graciela Graylynn Gracielynn Graelynn Marilynn Madilynn Kaitlynn Braelynn Brooklynn Madalynn Madelynn Graciella Grayson Jocelynn Carolynn Emberlynn Graclynn Kaylynn Katelynn Oaklynn Adelynn Evelynn Jacquelynn

Names with a curve like Gracelynn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gracelynn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Leighton Evelynn Briella Alayah Harlow Brinley Sawyer Avianna Adelynn Nylah Carter Raelyn

Sibling names for Gracelynn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Alayah Maren Wynter Demi Elle Nylah Charli Winter

For a brother

Zayne Alijah Raiden Ford Ronin Kasen Oakley Sage

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