Grace
The girl's name Grace has been in the national records since 1880, with 536,340 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 38th. About 313,000 Graces are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Grace boys named Grace
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 536,340
- Estimated living today
- 313,000
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2003
- Best rank
- 13th
- Rank in 2025
- 38th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 534,935 / 1,405
How old the living Graces are
born that year still alive today
Of the 536,340 babies given the name since 1880, about 313,000 are alive — 58 in every hundred. Roughly 121,000 of them are children and 34,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin English
From the noun grace, first used by Puritans in the 16th century. In Roman Catholic use it may refer to Our Lady of Graces, cognate with Italian Grazia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Graces
- Grace Kelly (1929–1982)American actress and Princess consort of Monaco
- Grace Hopper (1906–1992)American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
- Chloë Grace Moretz (born 1997)American actress
- Grace Jones (born 1948)Jamaican singer, model and actress
- Grace Coolidge (1879–1957)First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929
- Grace Slick (born 1939)American musician, writer and painter
- Mckenna Grace (born 2006)American actress and singer
- Grace Park (born 1974)Korean-American-Canadian actress
People named Grace with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Grace is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Grace is most concentrated in Hawaii (1.5×), Delaware (1.4×), Vermont (1.4×), Alaska (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2003
The most popular girls’ names the year Grace peaked:
Grace elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Grace | 80,517 | 1st |
| Ireland girls | Grace | 13,627 | 7th |
| New Zealand girls | Grace | 6,920 | 5th |
| Scotland girls | Grace | 6,311 | 15th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Grace | 4,605 | 3rd |
| France girls | Grace +1 spelling | 4,380 | 327th |
| Italy girls | Grace | 2,839 | — |
| Belgium girls | Grace +1 spelling | 599 | 338th |
| Switzerland girls | Grace | 430 | 256th |
| Norway girls | Grace | 323 | 348th |
| France boys | Grace +1 spelling | 85 | 3,586th |
| Poland girls | Grace | 76 birth registrations | 347th |
| England and Wales boys | Grace | 3 | 4,052nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Grace: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Grace | 282 | 0.023% | 248th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Grace | 81 | 0.019% | 251st |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Grace | 66 | 0.101% | 27th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Grace | 1 | 0.027% | 8th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Grace is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.10% of children were given it – 65 of them.
Grace: rank by region
In 2025, Grace was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Grace | 836 | 5 |
In 2024, Grace was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Grace | 8 | 1 |
In 2023, Grace was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Podkarpackie | Grace | 160 | 2 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Grace appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (245th) and Brussels-Capital Region (271st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Grace by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 37 | 253rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Grace among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Grace | 742 | 2,157 |
| Finland girls | Grace | 123 | 499 |
| the Netherlands boys | Grace | 5 | 17 |
| Finland boys | Grace | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Grace lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 678 women called Grace were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Araba/Álava | Grace | 11 | 0.063 | 1,149 |
| Balears, Illes | Grace | 34 | 0.054 | 1,220 |
| Zaragoza | Grace | 27 | 0.053 | 1,055 |
| Barcelona | Grace | 135 | 0.044 | 1,295 |
| Málaga | Grace | 39 | 0.043 | 1,310 |
| Navarra | Grace | 14 | 0.041 | 1,477 |
Listed in 25 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 27 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Grace against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.