Graclyn

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 16 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
16
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Graclyn by the numbers

Graclyn was given to 16 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 21 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Graclyn

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Graclyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Gracelynelegant favour and grace; a modern respelling of Grace942 in the US (2017)
  • Gracyngrace, favor; a modern respelling of Grace171 in the US (2017)
  • Graceyngrace; a modern respelling of Gracey or Grace with -yn suffix46 in the US (2017)
  • Graelyn15 in the US (2017)
  • Graclynn14 in the US (2017)
  • Gracilyn6 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Graclyn

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