girls:
192 births since 1999
#5524 (3rd percentile)
overall:
192 births since 1999
#7547 (2nd percentile)
The name Gracious is the #7,547 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 192 recorded births since 1999. This represents the 2.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,524 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 192 births since 1999.
Gracious first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1999 (first recorded for girls in 1999). Birth data for Gracious is available in 24 out of the 25 years between 1999 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Gracious reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #936) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Gracious ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 59.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gracious".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Gracious is pronounced as GRAY-shuhs, which has 2 syllables.
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