girls:
524.6k births since 1880
#59 (99th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1880
#3244 (29th percentile)
overall:
526k births since 1880
#124 (98th percentile)
The name Grace is the #124 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 526,035 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #59 (99.0% percentile) for all time with 524,649 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,244 (29.2% percentile) for all time with 1,386 births since 1880.
Grace has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Grace has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Grace reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 98.8% percentile (ranked #12) with 6,370 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 11,296 births per million (ranked 95.9% percentile). Despite a low point in 2014, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Grace ranks #37 for girls (96.2% percentile) with 2,793 births per million, which is 24.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Grace reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 4.7% percentile (ranked #506) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 114 births per million (ranked 4.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Grace ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 6.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Grace".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Grace. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Grace is pronounced as grays, which has 1 syllables.
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