Graciela

Where Graciela comes from

Graciela 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. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,919 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1941
    Graciela Borges born
    actress
  3. 1946
    Graciela Chichilnisky born
    American economist
  4. 1998
    Peak, #574
    428 babies named Graciela — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,274.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Graciela Borges · actress, born 1941
  • Graciela Chichilnisky · American economist, born 1946
  • Graciela Alfano · Argentine model, actress, and TV entertainer, born 1952
  • Graciela Calderón · Mexican botanist and botanical collector, 1931–2022
  • Graciela Daniele · American dancer and choreographer, born 1939

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.