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Grace

Girls' name · Millennial-era perennial

Living in the US
~316,100 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#38 among girls
Births in 2025
5,139 536,340 since 1880
Typical age
21 years, median

Grace popularity over time

Grace rank by birth year, 1880–2025Grace ranked #19 in 1880 and #38 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #13, in 1883.#100#38best #13 in 188318901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Grace in 2003 than in any other year — 12,801 of them. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. It has held a top-100 place in 90 separate years.

As of 2025 the name sits at #38, with 5,139 births that year. Compared with 2015, births are down 33%.

Babies named Grace per yearPeaks at 12,801 births in 2003.12,801 in 2003018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Grace?

Roughly 316,100 Graces are alive in the US right now. That is out of 536,340 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Grace?

The typical living Grace is 21 years old. Most living bearers were born in the 2000s. By the site’s era rules that makes Grace a millennial-era perennial name.

Your Grace

Ages of living people named GraceHalf of living Graces are older than 21 and half younger.median 21020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Grace is most common

Relative to births, Rhode Island carries 2.8× the national share of Graces. Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire follow.

Where Grace is used more than average5 states use the name Grace more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: 2.5× the national rateMEVermont: 2.6× the national rateVTNew Hampshire: 2.4× the national rateNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: 2.8× the national rateRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: 2.3× the national rateDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Grace is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Rhode Island 291 2.8×
Vermont 107 2.6×
Maine 316 2.5×
New Hampshire 337 2.4×
District of Columbia 245 2.3×

Grace in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Grace ranked #27 in 2025 on 1,309 births. That is 35% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Grace comes from

From the noun grace, first used by Puritans in the 16th century. In Roman Catholic use it may refer to Our Lady of Graces, cognate with Italian Grazia.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Grace

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Grace Kelly American actress and Princess consort of Monaco 1929–1982 117
Grace Hopper American computer scientist and United States Navy officer 1906–1992 84
Grace Jones Jamaican singer, model and actress 1948 52
Grace Coolidge First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929 1879–1957 46
Grace Slick American musician, writer and painter 1939 44
Grace O'Malley pirate Queen of Umaill, chieftain of the Ó Máille clan 1539–1599 37
Grace Mugabe First lady of Zimbabwe; wife of Robert Mugabe 1965 35
Grace Moore American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film 1898–1947 34
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The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 5,729 in 1998 to 9,189 in 1999 — 1.6 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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