Recorded 1989–2025 · United States
Gracen was most popular in 2016, when 208 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,158 that year. In 2025 it ranked #4,792, with 63 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,531 people named Gracen.
Gracen first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1989, which makes it about 36 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 35 of the 37 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,531 American births named Gracen between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 3,499 are estimated to be alive today.
63 American babies were named Gracen in 2025, ranking #4,792 that year.
Gracen is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 85 births a year, against 147 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -42% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Gracen is a unisex name — 63.2% of the 3,531 Americans given it were girls and 36.8% were boys. It changed hands: since 2022 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 47% girls and 53% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 3,499 Americans named Gracen are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 14 years old, and half are between 9 and 21. That is a narrow band because Gracen is a young name — it only became common recently, so almost everyone carrying it is still a child or a young adult.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org