Given name & surname
Gracia
Gracia 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
Gracia 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.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Gracia is a variant of Grace. Grace comes from the English abstract noun, which traces back to Latin gratia.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
Gracia 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
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Gracia 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.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Gracia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,952
- 0 boys · 1,952 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 48 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,351 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −26%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,351 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 26.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 48 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,769 as a first name in 2020; 10,848 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.
Gracia’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Gracia has a diminutive in Graciela. Gracia shares a linguistic root with Grace. In Spanish usage, Gracia has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Grazia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Gracia has relatives in 4 languages.
5 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gracia
- Gracia BaurGerman singerborn 1982
- Gracia Mendes NasiPortuguese businesswoman1510–1569
- Gracia QuerejetaSpanish film directorborn 1962
- Gracia BarriosChilean painter (1926-2020)
- Gracia BaptistaSpanish nun and composer
- Gracia OlayoSpanish actressborn 1957
- Gracia IndriIndonesian actressborn 1990
- Gracia Yamba KazadiCongolese politicianborn 1988
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Gracia, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Graciella
Graciella 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.
>99% girls
Gracey
Gracey 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.
>99% girls
Anamaria
“filled with bitter grace”
>99% girls
Bethsaida
“from the house of mercy”
>99% girls
Raeanna
“an innocent woman full of grace”
>99% girls
Nadia
“one who is full of hope”
>99% girls
Gracie
In English and Scottish use, Gracie is an affectionate form 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.
>99% girls
Nadya
“one who is full of hope”
>99% girls