Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: EnglishGrace is a female name from the Latin gratia. It is often given in reference to the Christian concept of divine grace and used as a virtue name. As one of the theological virtues, Grace was in regular use by English Puritans in the 16th through the 18th centuries.
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In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Grace yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Grace's rank peaked in 1883, just three years into this dataset, while 12,781 births — the raw-count high — didn't show up until 2003, a 120-year gap between the two milestones — one of the widest gaps observed across every batch so far, second only to Samuel's 121-year gap from the second batch.
531,126 total births since 1880 make it one of the larger names in this range, and the 2024 count, 5,002, is down 35% from a decade earlier.
Grace Kelly and computing pioneer Grace Hopper anchor the name across mid-century film and science, while Chloë Grace Moretz carries it into the present as a middle name rather than a given one.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 982 | #19 |
| 1881 | 1,089 | #15 |
| 1882 | 1,195 | #16 |
| 1883 | 1,307 | #13 |
| 1884 | 1,525 | #13 |
| 1885 | 1,575 | #14 |
| 1886 | 1,723 | #14 |
| 1887 | 1,692 | #15 |
| 1888 | 2,090 | #15 |
| 1889 | 2,049 | #15 |
| 1890 | 2,278 | #13 |
| 1891 | 2,088 | #14 |
| 1892 | 2,299 | #16 |
| 1893 | 2,308 | #16 |
| 1894 | 2,361 | #19 |
| 1895 | 2,448 | #18 |
| 1896 | 2,485 | #17 |
| 1897 | 2,458 | #14 |
| 1898 | 2,726 | #15 |
| 1899 | 2,353 | #15 |
| 1900 | 2,942 | #17 |
| 1901 | 2,398 | #15 |
| 1902 | 2,642 | #17 |
| 1903 | 2,616 | #16 |
| 1904 | 2,513 | #19 |
| 1905 | 2,630 | #19 |
| 1906 | 2,626 | #19 |
| 1907 | 2,747 | #20 |
| 1908 | 2,901 | #19 |
| 1909 | 2,912 | #21 |
| 1910 | 3,145 | #23 |
| 1911 | 3,304 | #23 |
| 1912 | 4,418 | #24 |
| 1913 | 4,669 | #25 |
| 1914 | 5,594 | #25 |
| 1915 | 7,044 | #27 |
| 1916 | 7,461 | #26 |
| 1917 | 7,373 | #30 |
| 1918 | 7,770 | #31 |
| 1919 | 7,195 | #34 |
| 1920 | 7,172 | #37 |
| 1921 | 7,230 | #35 |
| 1922 | 6,743 | #38 |
| 1923 | 6,316 | #39 |
| 1924 | 6,327 | #43 |
| 1925 | 5,983 | #44 |
| 1926 | 5,427 | #46 |
| 1927 | 5,304 | #50 |
| 1928 | 4,989 | #52 |
| 1929 | 4,569 | #54 |
| 1930 | 4,218 | #62 |
| 1931 | 3,712 | #70 |
| 1932 | 3,535 | #72 |
| 1933 | 3,330 | #69 |
| 1934 | 3,087 | #79 |
| 1935 | 2,995 | #83 |
| 1936 | 2,790 | #86 |
| 1937 | 2,710 | #94 |
| 1938 | 2,609 | #100 |
| 1939 | 2,371 | #108 |
| 1940 | 2,386 | #105 |
| 1941 | 2,102 | #123 |
| 1942 | 2,158 | #129 |
| 1943 | 2,122 | #130 |
| 1944 | 1,925 | #135 |
| 1945 | 1,745 | #139 |
| 1946 | 1,763 | #154 |
| 1947 | 1,883 | #154 |
| 1948 | 1,677 | #167 |
| 1949 | 1,608 | #173 |
| 1950 | 1,511 | #183 |
| 1951 | 1,579 | #182 |
| 1952 | 1,525 | #194 |
| 1953 | 1,383 | #213 |
| 1954 | 1,410 | #213 |
| 1955 | 1,391 | #216 |
| 1956 | 1,838 | #189 |
| 1957 | 1,922 | #186 |
| 1958 | 1,704 | #199 |
| 1959 | 1,666 | #204 |
| 1960 | 1,567 | #212 |
| 1961 | 1,443 | #230 |
| 1962 | 1,329 | #238 |
| 1963 | 1,274 | #248 |
| 1964 | 1,211 | #255 |
| 1965 | 1,114 | #256 |
| 1966 | 935 | #277 |
| 1967 | 897 | #283 |
| 1968 | 751 | #318 |
| 1969 | 693 | #340 |
| 1970 | 777 | #338 |
| 1971 | 678 | #360 |
| 1972 | 607 | #362 |
| 1973 | 604 | #352 |
| 1974 | 535 | #390 |
| 1975 | 567 | #366 |
| 1976 | 527 | #390 |
| 1977 | 526 | #398 |
| 1978 | 587 | #362 |
| 1979 | 691 | #342 |
| 1980 | 761 | #317 |
| 1981 | 832 | #292 |
| 1982 | 951 | #260 |
| 1983 | 997 | #240 |
| 1984 | 1,016 | #246 |
| 1985 | 1,066 | #242 |
| 1986 | 1,159 | #225 |
| 1987 | 1,379 | #198 |
| 1988 | 1,708 | #165 |
| 1989 | 1,927 | #150 |
| 1990 | 2,187 | #140 |
| 1991 | 2,386 | #133 |
| 1992 | 2,660 | #127 |
| 1993 | 2,705 | #123 |
| 1994 | 3,177 | #103 |
| 1995 | 3,473 | #97 |
| 1996 | 3,741 | #94 |
| 1997 | 4,639 | #69 |
| 1998 | 5,723 | #53 |
| 1999 | 9,181 | #27 |
| 2000 | 11,284 | #19 |
| 2001 | 12,089 | #16 |
| 2002 | 12,056 | #15 |
| 2003 | 12,781 | #13 |
| 2004 | 12,536 | #13 |
| 2005 | 11,865 | #14 |
| 2006 | 10,974 | #16 |
| 2007 | 9,768 | #20 |
| 2008 | 9,041 | #21 |
| 2009 | 8,321 | #17 |
| 2010 | 7,689 | #18 |
| 2011 | 7,640 | #16 |
| 2012 | 7,393 | #21 |
| 2013 | 7,385 | #22 |
| 2014 | 7,659 | #20 |
| 2015 | 7,679 | #19 |
| 2016 | 7,616 | #19 |
| 2017 | 7,083 | #21 |
| 2018 | 6,785 | #24 |
| 2019 | 6,104 | #28 |
| 2020 | 5,623 | #28 |
| 2021 | 5,540 | #33 |
| 2022 | 5,289 | #35 |
| 2023 | 4,904 | #39 |
| 2024 | 5,002 | #40 |
