girls:
4.4k births since 1880
#2579 (55th percentile)
overall:
4.4k births since 1880
#4126 (47th percentile)
The name Grayce is the #4,126 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,397 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 46.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,579 (54.9% percentile) for all time with 4,397 births since 1880.
Grayce has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Grayce is available in 127 out of the 144 years between 1880 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, Grayce reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 21.9% percentile (ranked #451) with 119 births per million. The name was most common in 1892, with 124 births per million (ranked 7.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Grayce ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 6.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Grayce".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Grayce. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Grayce is pronounced as grays, which has 1 syllables.
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