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Grecia

#1,138 in 2025Girls' name

Selloi, through Γραικός

Grecia has been given to 6,318 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,138 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 216 recorded.

Babies named Grecia, 2025

1 in 16,300

Grecia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Grecia: meaning, origin, and history

Selloi, through Γραικός

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Grecia means

Grecia belongs to the name family reached through Grecia → Γραικός. Its meaning is “Selloi”.

Origin, language, and formation

Grecia is used in Spanish.

Grecia comes through Ancient Greek Γραικός.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Γραικός.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Grecia is pronounced /ˈɡɾeθja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,318 girls were recorded with the name Grecia between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 216 in 2006; its best national rank was #988 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,427 in 2020 to #1,138 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,383 in 2015 to #1,138 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 Grecia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,300
204 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,880
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,138
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,265 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Grecia 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,265 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Grecia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Grecias were born

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

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,318
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2000s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (1,838).

Is Grecia 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
+20
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+289
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+245
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
94.4%
Peak was 2006 (216)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#988
1988

Spellings of Grecia

Grecia is not the most common spelling — Gracie is, with 44.2% against Grecia's 3.3%.

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 Grecia is used

Across 2016–2025, Grecia was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 2,778 girls, against 1 in 6,602 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

136 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 2,778
  2. 2Texas1 in 3,125
  3. 3California1 in 4,545
  4. 4Colorado1 in 5,882
  5. 5Georgia1 in 10,000
  6. 6New Mexico1 in 11,111
  7. 7Indiana1 in 16,667
  8. 8Washington1 in 16,667

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.

Grecia around the world

Where Grecia 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.

  • Canada
    2022–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Grecia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,138
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 289
Best rank ever
#988
1988
Peak year
2006
216 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,318
Count in 2025
204

Names similar to Grecia

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

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Names with a curve like Grecia

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

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Sibling names for Grecia

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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