# Grace (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/grace/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ɡɹeɪs/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | Gracie |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 536,340 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,405 / 534,935 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 80,520, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From the noun grace, first used by Puritans in the 16th century. In Roman Catholic use it may refer to Our Lady of Graces, cognate with Italian Grazia.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7,642 | 16 |
| 2012 | 7,393 | 21 |
| 2013 | 7,387 | 22 |
| 2014 | 7,660 | 20 |
| 2015 | 7,680 | 19 |
| 2016 | 7,617 | 19 |
| 2017 | 7,087 | 21 |
| 2018 | 6,789 | 24 |
| 2019 | 6,111 | 28 |
| 2020 | 5,627 | 28 |
| 2021 | 5,542 | 33 |
| 2022 | 5,296 | 35 |
| 2023 | 4,908 | 39 |
| 2024 | 5,033 | 40 |
| 2025 | 5,127 | 38 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | 10,028 |
| 2011 | 8 | 9,038 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,394 |
| 2013 | 13 | 6,372 |
| 2014 | 13 | 6,422 |
| 2015 | 10 | 7,678 |
| 2016 | 15 | 5,879 |
| 2017 | 12 | 6,830 |
| 2018 | 11 | 7,295 |
| 2019 | 11 | 7,327 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,074 |
| 2021 | 14 | 6,141 |
| 2023 | 14 | 6,311 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,246 |
| 2025 | 12 | 6,935 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,691 | 8 |
| 2012 | 3,188 | 14 |
| 2013 | 2,799 | 13 |
| 2014 | 2,785 | 11 |
| 2015 | 2,658 | 14 |
| 2016 | 2,498 | 15 |
| 2017 | 2,309 | 13 |
| 2018 | 2,301 | 10 |
| 2019 | 2,330 | 8 |
| 2020 | 2,010 | 11 |
| 2021 | 1,992 | 14 |
| 2022 | 1,675 | 17 |
| 2023 | 1,541 | 18 |
| 2024 | 1,390 | 25 |
| 2025 | 1,309 | 27 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: غريس
- Chinese: 格雷絲 /格雷丝
- French: Grace
- Greek: Αγλαΐα, Γκρέις
- Hebrew: חנה
- Italian: Grazia
- Japanese: グレース
- Korean: 그레이스
- Polish: Gracja
- Portuguese: Graça, Greice
- Russian: Грейс, Агла́я
- Scottish Gaelic: Giorsal
- Spanish: Gracia

## People named Grace

- Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess consort of Monaco (1929–1982)
- Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
- Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress (born 1997)
- Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929
- Mckenna Grace, American actress and singer (born 2006)
- Grace Slick, American musician, writer and painter
- Grace Mugabe, First lady of Zimbabwe; wife of Robert Mugabe
- Grace Moore, American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film (1898-1947)
- Grace VanderWaal, American singer-songwriter (born 2004)
- Grace Van Patten, American actress
- Grace Aguilar, English novelist, poet and writer on Jewish history and religion
- Grace Zabriskie, American actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.