Given name & surname
Altagracia
“the high grace of the Virgin Mary”
Altagracia is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “the high grace of the Virgin Mary.”
Original Spanishอัลตากฺ๎ราเซฺีย̂
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “the high grace of the Virgin Mary.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Altagracia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 779
- 0 boys · 779 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 22 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 7,979 as a first name in 2020; 201 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Altagracia’s family of names
Altagracia has a related form in Alta. In Spanish usage, Altagracia can be written in the Roman alphabet as อัลตากฺ๎ราเซฺีย̂.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Altagracia
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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