Gracelyn
Gracelyn Smallwood is a professor of nursing and midwifery at Central Queensland University. She is an Aboriginal Australian of Biri descent.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Gracelyn
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Gracelyn Smallwood is a professor of nursing and midwifery at Central Queensland University. She is an Aboriginal Australian of Biri descent.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Gracelyn
American parents first put Gracelyn on the record books as a baby girl name in 1924, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2018, when 980 Gracelyns were born — ranking #333 that year. About 49% of every Gracelyn on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Gracelyn ranks #552 for baby girls with 555 births, falling sharply (-32%). All told, over 16K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1920s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Gracelyn
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Gracelyn. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Gracelyn
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- Grappling
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About the name Gracelyn
Gracelyn is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1924 and has accumulated 16K births in the dataset. Gracelyn's peak popularity came in 2018 when it ranked #321. Use the chart and map above to compare Gracelyn's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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