Gracia

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: Latin Gratia, from gratus: ‘grace, pleasantness’; as a name, the theological grace of God

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɡɾaθja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gracia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Panama it is the 10th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PAPanama≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 1.8K
  • ECEcuador1 in 3.4K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

28,072 people

Sources
300 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Panama, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Latin Gratia, from gratus: ‘grace, pleasantness’; as a name, the theological grace of God

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

How Gracia is read(measured from records)

Gracia is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish58%

    Latin Gratia, from gratus: ‘grace, pleasantness’; as a name, the theological grace of God

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

    grace, charm

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    bela, graciosa; beautiful, gracious

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • English23%

    Alternative form of Garasia.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gracia 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.

Where Gracia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#18228,0721 in 1.8K28KGracia200
PH Philippines—≈14,000 est.≈1 in 8K—Gracia73
US United States—9,5201 in 35K11KGracia300
CO Colombia#763≈5,600 est.≈1 in 8.8K—Gracia93
EC Ecuador#8804,9171 in 3.4K4.9KGracia34
PA Panama#10≈2,500 est.≈1 in 1.6K2Gracia77
PY Paraguay#397≈960 est.≈1 in 7.5K—Gracia18

28,072 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; INEC — civil registry 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gracia is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gràcia, Gracía, Graciá, Gräcïä, Grâciä

  • Catalan surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Andorra, Spain

    Also written Gràcia, Graçia, Gracía, Graciá, Gracià

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Gracià, Gracía, Gràcia, Grácia, Gracìa

  • Indonesian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Spain, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Gracia, Gracia', Gracía

  • Lao surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Spain

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Gràcia, Gracía, Gräciä

74 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gracia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • from a short form of the religious epithet da Gracia meaning ‘of mercy’, from gracia ‘grace’, ‘mercy’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • From Latin. See }Grace in main dictionary.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

190019201940196019802000María Montez, b. 1912Sancho Gracia, b. 1936Jordi Estadella, b. 1948Ana Gracia, b. 1959Javi Gracia, b. 1970Andoni Gracia, b. 1971David Civera, b. 1979Rubén Gracia, b. 1981Megan Montaner, b. 1987

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)

FormalEstimada Sra. Gracia,Dear Ms Gracia, (English)
InformalHola Gracia,Hi Gracia, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 87 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Gracia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—28K#179
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—28K#179
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202011K#3,250
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020109.5K#3,720
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020007.5K#4,371
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20244.9K#783
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)202476—

Reference works 8

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

What does the name Gracia mean, and where does it come from?
Latin Gratia, from gratus: ‘grace, pleasantness’; as a name, the theological grace of God Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
How do you pronounce Gracia?
A machine transcription gives /ɡɾaθja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Gracia have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Gracia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gracia.
How common is the name Gracia?
In Spain, the national register counted 28,072 people named Gracia, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
How common is Gracia compared with other names?
In Spain, Gracia is the 182nd most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Gracia” — the 182nd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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