Grace
Grace is the 1,255th most common surname in the United States, shared by 27,610 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,800.
By the numbers
- People
- 27,610
- Rank
- 1,255th
- How common
- 1 in 10,800
- Per 100,000
- 9.2
Where the name comes from
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.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Grace described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Grace
- Maggie Grace (born 1983)American actress
- Topher Grace (born 1978)American actor
- Mckenna Grace (born 2006)American actress and singer
- W. G. Grace (1848–1915)English amateur cricketer
- Leslie Grace (born 1995)American singer
- Laura Jane Grace (born 1980)American musician
- Nancy Grace (born 1959)American legal commentator, television host, television journalist, and former prosecutor
- Patricia Grace (born 1937)New Zealand writer
People named Grace with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Grace
Also a first name
Grace has been given to 536,340 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2003. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.