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Graelyn

Gender
Girl
Say it
GRAY-lin
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#11,928 for girls

Graelyn is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “grey + lake”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

What does Graelyn mean?

Modern: blend of Gray and Lynn

“grey + lake”

Is Graelyn a girl's or a boy's name?

Graelyn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Graelyn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#11,928among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling fastdown 71% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Graelyn, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 37 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.

Half of all the girls named Graelyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 56 girls in the US were given Graelyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,426, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.

2009Busiest: 37 in 20182025
Graelyn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#11,928
20247#12,156
202312#8,481
202221#5,790
202114#7,625
202020#5,846
201932#4,342
201837#3,917
201715#7,438
201617#6,898
201514#8,004
201410#10,124
20139#10,995
20129#11,251
201111#9,719
20107#13,442
20096#15,236

Nicknames for Graelyn

Names like Graelyn

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Graelyn

Names related to Graelyn

More Modern names

Every Modern name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Graelyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/graelyn, updated 20 October 2026.