Given name
Graciela
Graciela 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
Graciela 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
Graciela 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
In Spanish usage, Graciela is a diminutive of Gracia. Graciela 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.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Graciela 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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Graciela through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16,354
- 39 boys · 16,315 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 428 babies
- 2025
- 109
- #1,835 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −9%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 109 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 1,835 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 9.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 428 in 1998. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (32). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 38,850 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Graciela’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Graciela is a diminutive of Gracia. Graciela has a related form in Grace. In Spanish usage, Graciela has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Graziella.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
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 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Graciela
- Graciela Borgesactressborn 1941
- Graciela ChichilniskyAmerican economistborn 1946
- Graciela AlfanoArgentine model, actress, and TV entertainerborn 1952
- Graciela CalderónMexican botanist and botanical collector (1931-2022)
- Graciela DanieleAmerican dancer and choreographerborn 1939
- Graciela Fernández MeijideArgentine human rights activist and politicianborn 1931
- Graciela Rodo BoulangerBolivian artistborn 1935
- Graciela SalicrupMexican architect, archaeologist, and mathematician1935–1982
- Graciela BogránHonduran writer, teacher and women's rights activist1896–2000
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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