Gracee
Feminine · “Latin gratia”
Gracee ends by spelling a letter. Cee is how you write the name of the letter C, and a great many American names now contain spelled-out letters: Kaydee, Jaycee, Elle, Dee, Emmy. The alphabet has become a source of syllables, and reading them aloud produces names that are literally initials.
How old is the name Gracee?
Gracee first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Gracee alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 1,500 people named Gracee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Gracee most popular?
Gracee peaked in 2005, reaching #1803 nationally. Today it ranks #8860, 7,057 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
Where it comes from
From gratia to Gracee
Our story of Gracee
Our reading is that the alphabet has become a working part of the American naming vocabulary, and the mechanism has three stages. First, initials are used as a name: a person is legally J. R. or C. J. with nothing behind the letters, a practice with a long history in the American South. Second, the initials are spelled phonetically: Jaycee, Kaydee, Deejay, Elle, Emmy, Dee, Kay, and each becomes a name in its own right, so that a woman called Elle is named after a letter. Third, the letter-spellings become available as syllables inside longer names, which is where Gracee arrives: the -cee ending is a legitimate spelling of the sound whether or not anyone is thinking of the letter. Once that happens the alphabet is functioning as a stock of morphemes, which is not something writing systems usually do.
Meaning
Latin gratia, favor or grace
From Latin gratia, favor or kindness, which in Christian usage translates Greek charis and denotes unearned divine favor. Gracee is a respelling of Gracie, the diminutive of Grace, with an -ee ending. The ending happens to spell the name of the letter C, which is a coincidence of English orthography rather than an intention. It peaks in 2005.
How the name formed
- gratia
- Grace
- Gracie
- Gracee
Related forms: Gracie · Gracia
Pronouncing Gracee
GRAY-see
Two syllables, stress on the first. Identical to Gracie; the -ee ending changes nothing audible. It also spells the name of the letter C, which is why the name can be read as Gray plus C.
Nicknames for Gracee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 2007114 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1803reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%11 in 2025, from 11
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Gracee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Gracie in English — spelling variant
- Gracia in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Utah, Pennsylvania.
Gracees among us
people named Gracee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 146,115 born in 2025 was named Gracee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Gracee
- #8860
- Gracee on the 2025 chart
- #41
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Gracee went to 11 girls in 2025, but Grace is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 5,138, which makes it the 41st most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,819 places above the chart.
- Grace5,127
- Gracee11
About 1 girl in 313 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 146,115 for Gracee itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Nelida test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Gracee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Nelida climbed just as high around 1964, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Nelida's path sketches the road Gracee is walking now.
Gracee sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Gracee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Gracee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The underlying word has a settled meaning and four centuries of English use.
- Grace is available as a formal version.
- The sound is warm and universally recognized.
- Gracie is overwhelmingly more common.
- The -ee ending is inaudible.
- It reads as a diminutive rather than a full name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Gracees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Gracee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Gracee?
- Gracee is one of 2 recorded spellings. Grace is the more common one — 5,127 births in 2025 against 11 for Gracee.
- How popular is the name Gracee in 2025?
- Gracee ranks #8860 among US girl names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Gracee?
- About 1 in every 146,115 US girls born in 2025 was named Gracee — 11 in all.
- Will my child share the name Gracee with classmates?
- Gracee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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