Gracias
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Thank you
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries
/ɡɾaθjas/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Gracias is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 8.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- PAPanama≈1 in 14Kfew records
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 21Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)second-person singular past historic of gracier
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gracias is read
(measured from records)Gracias is one spelling over 5 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.
- Spanish47%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gracias in Spanish.
- Hindi18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gracias in Hindi.
- English15%
Thank you.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.5%
second-person singular past historic of gracier
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gracias in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Gracias 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Gracias | 29 |
| IN India | — | 1,328 | 1 in 999K | 1.3K | Gracias | 23 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Gracias | 19 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Gracias | 43 |
| SV El Salvador | #516 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Gracias | 17 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Gracias | 9 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #874 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Gracias | 14 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Valerian Graciasb. 1900INCatholic cardinal (1901–1978)
- Oswald Graciasb. 1944INCatholic cardinal
- Edwin Ernesto Rivera Graciasb. 1984SVFBI most wanted fugitive
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)Evidence
(measured from records)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.5K | #110 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.3K | #4,390 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #27,184 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Gracias come from?
- second-person singular past historic of gracier Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Gracias?
- In the etymology graph, Gracia is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gracias?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ɡɾaθjas/; in Portuguese /ɡɾɐsjɐʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Gracias mean?
- In English, Thank you.
- In which country does Gracias have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Gracias in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gracias.
- How common is the name Gracias?
- In India, the national register counted 1,328 people named Gracias, about 1 in 999 thousand residents.
- How common is Gracias compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Gracias is the 516th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/graciasThe 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, “Gracias” — the 516th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.