Given name

Gracinha

Gracinha 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

Gracinha 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

Gracinha 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

Gracinha 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

Gracinha 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.

Explained through its name family

Gracinha’s family of names

Gracinha has a related form in Grace.

Walk Gracinha’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Gracinha

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

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

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

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

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

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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Virtue

Gratiela

Gratiela 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

3% boys · 97% girls

Virtue

Grazinia

Grazinia 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 Gracinha’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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