The name pages

Grace

Grace ranks #38 in the United States in 2025, keeping its place without fuss. Its record runs from 1880 through a 2003 peak, 534,935 children in all.

Grace on the door plaque, from the book's opening page
Grace complete and glowing, from the book's payoff page
Meaning

What Grace carries

Grace · Latin

“grace”

Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.

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Five printables for Grace, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.

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  • Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
  • Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
  • Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.

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Popularity

Grace since 1880

Grace peaked in 2003 at #13; #38 in 2025.

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United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.

Where it lives

Where Grace is most common

By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Grace runs strongest in Maine at 1.19% in 2025, then New Hampshire and Alaska.

Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.

Related

Names that sit near Grace

Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.

Browse: names starting with G · Latin names · all names

Questions

About Grace

1

How common is Grace today?

Grace ranks #38 in the United States in 2025, keeping its place without fuss. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.

2

What does Grace mean?

The reference we cite records “grace”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).

3

Which names sit near Grace?

The recipe puts Gracie first, then Stella, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.

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