Grace
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the female personal name Grace, or from a medieval nickname for someone of a pleasant disposition
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡɹeɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Grace is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In the Philippines it is the 10th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 267(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 348
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 653
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #462 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 595 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 267 (inferred from the name graph)
≈900,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Grâce in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the female personal name Grace, or from a medieval nickname for someone of a pleasant disposition.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Grace, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grace counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈900,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Grace | 123 |
| NG Nigeria | #16 | ≈800,000 est. | ≈1 in 267 | listed | Grace | 126 |
| US United States | #268 | 322,614 | 1 in 1K | 322K | Grace | 595 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #15 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 348 | 2 | Grâce | 19 |
| ID Indonesia | #224 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Grace | 192 |
| PH Philippines | #10 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 653 | — | Grace | 195 |
| AU Australia | #151 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 985 | 743 | Grace | 261 |
| SG Singapore | #85 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 971 | — | Grace | 149 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Grace is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from a woman’s name, perhaps from Old English grisja ‘grey’; medieval forms latinized as Gratia and associated with Old French grace; first attested Robertus filius Grecie 1188 BuryS (Suffolk)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, from OFr gras 'fat' or grace 'pleasant/charming'; also from OE græs 'grass', 'pasture'; first attested William le Gras 1199 P
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, 1. nickname from Middle English, Old Erench grace ‘charm’, ‘pleasantness’ (Latin gratia). 2. from the female personal name Grace, which was popular in the Middle Ages. This seems in the first instance to have been from a Germanic element grls ‘gray’ (see Grice 1), but was soon associated by folk etymology with the Latin word meaning ‘charm’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, pleasantness (Lgratia). 2. from the female given name Grace, which was popular in the Middle Ages. This seems in the first instance to have been from a Gmc elementgris grey (see Grice i), but was soon associated by folk etymology with 1. Cogns.: It.: Grazia, Graz(z)i. Sp.: Gracia. Cat.: Gracia. Port.: Gra§a. Dims.: It.: Grazzini, Grazioli, Graziotti. Metrs.: It.: Di Gratia, Delle Grazie.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, Charming, pleasing qualities.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Grace Hopperb. 1906USAmerican computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
- Grace Kellyb. 1929USAmerican actress and Princess consort of Monaco (1929–1982)
- Grace Slickb. 1939USAmerican musician, writer and painter
- Martha Stewartb. 1941USnot in their usual nameAmerican businesswoman, writer, TV personality (born 1941)
- Grace Zabriskieb. 1941USAmerican actress
- Dara Torresb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican swimmer
- Elliot Pageb. 1987CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actor
- Naomi Scottb. 1993GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
- Chloë Grace Moretzb. 1997USAmerican actress (born 1997)
- Charli D'Ameliob. 2004USnot in their usual nameAmerican social media personality (born 2004)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 149 sources across 77 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 322K | #160 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5.1K | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 743 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 665 | #160 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2025 | 248 | #11 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2025 | 248 | #11 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2025 | 181 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 80 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Grace a male or female name?
- Grace is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Grace?
- In the etymology graph, Graciela, Graziella and Grazia are forms of the same name in other languages; Gracie and Gracelyn are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Grace mean, and where does it come from?
- From the female personal name Grace, or from a medieval nickname for someone of a pleasant disposition. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Grace have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 904 thousand people named Grace in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grace.
- How do you pronounce Grace?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɹeɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Grace?
- In the United States, the national register counted 322,614 people named Grace in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Grace compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Grace is the 10th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/graceThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Grace” — the 10th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.