Grayce
Feminine · “Latin "grace”
Grayce peaked in 1892, and that single fact undoes a common assumption. Respelling a name with a y to make it look distinctive is not a modern habit — it is at least a hundred and thirty years old, and Grayce is the proof. Grace with an ay was being written on American birth records before the automobile.
How old is the name Grayce?
Grayce was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Grayce alive today was born around 1930, making them about 95 years old. About 1,900 people named Grayce are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Grayce most popular?
Grayce peaked in 1892, reaching #510 nationally. Today it ranks #7133, 6,623 places below that high. See the whole 1892 chart.
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Where it comes from
From gratia to Grayce
The story of Grayce
Grace entered English naming with the Puritans, alongside Faith, Hope, Charity, Patience and Mercy, and unlike most of that set it never left. It was a top-twenty American name through the 1890s and 1900s. Grayce appears in exactly those years, which is the standard behavior of a respelling: it arrives when the parent name is at its most common, because that is when families most want a version of it that is theirs. The nineteenth century did this constantly — Grayce, Mabelle, Myrtelle, Bertie, Katharyn — and then the practice was forgotten and rediscovered a century later.
Meaning
Latin "grace, favor, thanks"
From Latin gratia, favor or thanks, taken up in Christian theology for divine grace and adopted as a virtue name. It is the same word behind grateful, gratitude and gratis. The etymology is settled and the y in this spelling does not affect it.
How the name formed
- gratia
- Grace
- Grayce
Related forms: Grazia · Gracia · Grâce · Gráinne
Pronouncing Grayce
GRAYSS
One syllable, said exactly like the word grace. The final e is silent and the ay spells the same long vowel that a alone would. Nothing in the respelling is audible.
Nicknames for Grayce
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
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1917134 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #510reached in 1892
- Change vs 2022
- −55.9%15 in 2025, from 34
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.
Grayce in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Grazia in Italian — same name
- Gracia in Spanish — same name
- Grâce in French — same name
- Gráinne in Irish — related form
Grayces among us
people named Grayce are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was named Grayce
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Grayce
- #7133
- Grayce on the 2025 chart
- #933
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Grayce went to 15 girls in 2025, but Graycee is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 27, which makes it the 933rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,200 places above the chart.
- Grayce15
- Graycee12
About 1 girl in 59,528 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 107,151 for Grayce 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
Fashion outlook
Grayce 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
Grayce beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Grayce in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, brief and entirely positive.
- The y spelling makes Gray available as a short form, which Grace does not.
- It has a genuine 1890s American history rather than being a modern invention.
- Grace is one of the most-used names in English and will always be written first.
- The spelling must be dictated every time.
- Gracie and Grayce together produce a mismatch on paper.
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Frequently asked
- How many Grayces are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,900 people named Grayce are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Grayce?
- Grayce is the most-used spelling in US records — 15 of the 27 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Graycee.
- How popular is the name Grayce in 2025?
- Grayce ranks #7133 among US girl names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Grayce?
- About 1 in every 107,151 US girls born in 2025 was named Grayce — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Grayce with classmates?
- Grayce will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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