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Gracey

#5,019 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Gracey has been given to 2,614 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #5,019 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 183 recorded.

Babies named Gracey, 2025

1 in 128,000

Gracey over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gracey: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gracey means

Gracey is a given name.

The naming story behind Gracey

Wikidata records Gracey as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q113467638, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,614 girls were recorded with the name Gracey between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 183 in 2005; its best national rank was #1,241 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,803 in 2020 to #5,019 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,662 in 2015 to #5,019 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.

How common is Gracey?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 61,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,019
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gracey 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gracey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Graceys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gracey was born before 2007 — so the typical Gracey is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
55.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,580
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 55.7% of all recorded uses (1,455).

Is Gracey 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
−1,026
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,216
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,357
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.2%
Peak was 2005 (183)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,241
2005

Spellings of Gracey

Gracey is not the most common spelling — Grace is, with 43.0% against Gracey's 0.21%.

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 Gracey is used

Across 1910–2025, Gracey was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 115,106 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Tennessee1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 50,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  5. 5Utah1 in 50,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 100,000

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. Gracey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gracey around the world

Where Gracey 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
    2000–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2019
    #765
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2001–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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

Gracey by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,019
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,216
Best rank ever
#1,241
2005
Peak year
2005
183 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,614
Count in 2025
26

Names similar to Gracey

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

GracenGraciaGracynGrayceGraceeGraysonGracyGraciDarceyGraysenGraycenGradyGrayceeGraceynGraycieGrahamGraceannGradieKelceyGrayGraclynGraelynJaceyGraciella

Names with a curve like Gracey

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

KaniyaJailaMakiyaCitlalyJamayaJamiahMakiahTrinitiMakylaKarimeJaedynJaela

Sibling names for Gracey

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

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