Given name & surname

Graca

Graca is a variant of Grace. As a name, Grace carries the word’s association with divine favour. Grace’s meaning comes from a vocabulary word rather than a compound of older personal names.

Meaning & origin

What it means

Graca is a variant of Grace. As a name, Grace carries the word’s association with divine favour. Grace’s meaning comes from a vocabulary word rather than a compound of older personal names.

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Where it comes from

Graca is a variant of Grace. Grace comes from the English abstract noun, which traces back to Latin gratia.

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How it developed

Graca is a variant of Grace. The shared background comes through Grace: The English word became a given name in its own right. In Ireland, Grace was also used as an English form of Grainne; that substitution is a separate naming tradition.

Explained through its name family

The story

Graca is a variant of Grace. The history of Grace gives this family its wider story. Puritans used Grace as a given name in the seventeenth century. Later bearers such as the rescue heroine Grace Darling and the actress Grace Kelly added distinct historical associations to it.

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Graca’s family of names

Graca has a related form in Grace.

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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.

Similar names

If you love Graca, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Virtue

Grata

Grata is a variant of Grace. As a name, Grace carries the word’s association with divine favour. Grace’s meaning comes from a vocabulary word rather than a compound of older personal names.

No U.S. birth series

18% boys · 82% girls

Latin · Virtue

Gracja

“grace, charm”

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Virtue

Gradana

Gradana is a variant of Grace. As a name, Grace carries the word’s association with divine favour. Grace’s meaning comes from a vocabulary word rather than a compound of older personal names.

No U.S. birth series

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Virtue

Grazyna

Grazyna is a variant of Grace. As a name, Grace carries the word’s association with divine favour. Grace’s meaning comes from a vocabulary word rather than a compound of older personal names.

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Virtue

Gracija

Gracija is a variant of Grace. As a name, Grace carries the word’s association with divine favour. Grace’s meaning comes from a vocabulary word rather than a compound of older personal names.

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Virtue

Grazina

Grazina is a variant of Grace. As a name, Grace carries the word’s association with divine favour. Grace’s meaning comes from a vocabulary word rather than a compound of older personal names.

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Virtue

Gracina

Gracina is a variant of Grace. As a name, Grace carries the word’s association with divine favour. Grace’s meaning comes from a vocabulary word rather than a compound of older personal names.

No U.S. birth series

8% boys · 92% girls

Virtue

Gratiella

Gratiella is a variant of Grace. As a name, Grace carries the word’s association with divine favour. Grace’s meaning comes from a vocabulary word rather than a compound of older personal names.

No U.S. birth series

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Graca’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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