girls:
16.1k births since 1916
#1184 (79th percentile)
boys:
39 births since 1971
#4547 (1st percentile)
overall:
16.1k births since 1916
#2041 (74th percentile)
The name Graciela is the #2,041 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,139 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 73.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,184 (79.3% percentile) for all time with 16,100 births since 1916. For boys, it ranks #4,547 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 39 births since 1971.
Graciela first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for girls and 1971 for boys). Birth data for Graciela is available in 107 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (107 years for girls and 7 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Graciela has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Graciela reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 43.1% percentile (ranked #498) with 221 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 221 births per million (ranked 43.1% percentile). Despite a low point in 2018, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Graciela ranks #858 for girls (9.4% percentile) with 54 births per million, which is 24.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Graciela reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Graciela".
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Our model has identified 14 different pronunciations for the name Graciela. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.5% confident that Graciela is pronounced as grah-see-EH-luh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is gruh-SEE-eh-luh, at 18.2% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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