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Graciela vs Grant

American parents have registered 136,669 Grants since 1880, against 16,354 Gracielas. Grant is still ahead, with 1,555 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Graciela against Grant, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Graciela Grant

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Grant has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1973, when Graciela had 231 and Grant had 581.

Side by side

  Graciela Grant
Total US births 16,354136,669
Most in one year 4283,315
Babies in 2025 1091,555
Estimated living today 15,000118,000
Median age today 3725
Peak year 19981997
Best rank 574th girls115th boys
Rank in 2025 1,833rd228th
First recorded 19161880
Girls / boys 16,315 / 39207 / 136,462

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Gracielas alive today are over 37; half the Grants are over 25. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Graciela Grant
England and Wales 201,199
France 405
Poland 32

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Graciela and Grant.