first name
GRACIELA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 38,850 people named Graciela, 97.7% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino and 1.5% as White. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Graciela peaked in 1998, when 428 babies got the name.
At least 16,354 babies have been given the name since 1916. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Graciela by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,229. The largest share of babies named Graciela, 25.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Graciela is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Graciela has been most common in Texas (6×), California (3.5×), and Arizona (2.8×), and least common in Michigan (0.11×).
13,646 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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