Given name
Graziella
Graziella 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
Graziella 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
Graziella 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 Italian use, Graziella is used as a diminutive of Grazia. Graziella 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 1965. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Graziella 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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Graziella through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 565
- 0 boys · 565 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #8,541 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +6%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,541 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 5.8% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 898 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.
Graziella’s family of names
In Italian usage, Graziella is a diminutive of Grace. In Italian usage, Graziella has a later derivative in GRAZIELLE. In Italian usage, Graziella has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Graciela.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Graziella has relatives in 4 languages.
8 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 5
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 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Graziella
- Lalla RomanoItalian writer (1906-2001)
- Graziella GalvaniItalian actress (1931–2022)
- Graziella GranataItalian actressborn 1941
- Graziella SciuttiItalian soprano, vocal teacher and opera producer (1927–2001)
- Graziella MagheriniItalian psychanalyst1927–2023
- Graziella ParetoSpanish opera singer1889–1973
- Graziella MorettoBrazilian actressborn 1972
- Graziella PellegriniItalian Professor of Cell Biologyborn 1961
- Graziella MasciaItalian politician (1953-2018)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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