Gracia

Where Gracia comes from

Gracia hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1510
    Gracia Mendes Nasi born
    Portuguese businesswoman
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1887
    Peak, #733
    10 babies named Gracia — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,276.
  5. 1982
    Gracia Baur born
    German singer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Gracia Baur · German singer, born 1982
  • Gracia Mendes Nasi · Portuguese businesswoman, 1510–1569
  • Gracia Querejeta · Spanish film director, born 1962
  • Gracia Barrios · Chilean painter, 1926–2020
  • Gracia Olayo · Spanish actress, born 1957

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.