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Grayce

#7,251 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Grayce has been given to 4,424 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #7,251 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 134 recorded.

Babies named Grayce, 2025

1 in 221,000

Grayce over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Grayce: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Grayce means

Grayce is a given name.

The naming story behind Grayce

Wikidata records Grayce as a given name. The entity identifier is Q65068743, 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, 4,424 girls were recorded with the name Grayce between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 134 in 1917; its best national rank was #516 in 1892.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,591 in 2020 to #7,251 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,105 in 2015 to #7,251 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 Grayce?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,251
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Grayce 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Grayce. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Grayces were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Grayce was born before 1930 — so the typical Grayce is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
18.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,771
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Choose a decade

1910s — 18.6% of all recorded uses (824).

Is Grayce 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
+1,886
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,660
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,146
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.28×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.2%
Peak was 1917 (134)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#516
1892

Spellings of Grayce

Grayce is not the most common spelling — Grace is, with 73.3% against Grayce's 0.61%.

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 Grayce is used

Across 1910–2025, Grayce was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 107,828 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  2. 2Illinois1 in 50,000
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 50,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 50,000
  5. 5Iowa1 in 100,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Dakota1 in 100,000
  8. 8Nebraska1 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. Grayce has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Grayce around the world

Where Grayce 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
    1998–2020
    #4,535
    in 2020
  • France
    2011–2025
    #3,925
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2021
    #3,151
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1995–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Grayce by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,251
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,660
Best rank ever
#516
1892
Peak year
1917
134 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,424
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Grayce

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

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Names with a curve like Grayce

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

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Sibling names for Grayce

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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