Grace name meaning, origin, famous people, and graphic designs
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Name: Grace
Pronunciation: g-ra-ce
Origin: Latin
Meaning: favor, blessing, Gracious
Gender: girl’s name, feminine given name
Story of Grace name π
Grace, a Latin girl’s name, comes from the word grΓ’tia and means “favor”, “blessing”, or “gracious”. Grace is a virtue name that was regularly used by Puritans in the sixteenth century to signify god’s love and divine grace.
In Greek mythology, the Three Graces were goddesses of nature who personified flowering, brilliance, and joy. This name has a simple charm that’s shown off by its most famous bearerβGrace Kelly, Princess of Monaco. Grace is, as the song says, amazing.
Common Nicknames for Grace π
- Gracie
- Gray
- Ace
- Gracelyn
- Graciana
- Gigi
Variants of Grace in other languages π
- French: GrΓ’ce
- English: Gracie
- Albanian: Greis, Graciela
- Italian: Grazia, Graziella
- Indonesian: Grace, Graciela, Gratia, Gracia
- Latin: Gratia
- Polish: Gracja
- Portuguese: GraΓ§a, GracΓlia
- Spanish: Gracia, Graciela
- Basque: Garazi
- Bulgarian: ΠΡΠ°ΡΠΈΡ
- Serbo-Croatian: Gracija
Graphic designs for Grace π
Grace name is formed with beautiful lillies:

Notable people named Grace π
- Grace Abbott (1878β1939), American social worker
- Grace Aboh (born 1943), Beninese activist, entrepreneur
- Grace Adams (born 1995), Ghanaian footballer
- Grace Aguilar (1816β1847), English novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion
- Grace Akallo (21st century), Ugandan child soldier
- Grace Akello (born c. 1940), Ugandan poet, essayist, folklorist and politician
- Grace Albee (1890β1985), American printmaker and wood engraver
- Grace Alekhine (1876β1956), American-British-French female artist and chess master
- Grace Alele-Williams (1932β2022), Nigerian mathematician and university vice-chancellor
- Grace Alexander (1872β1951), American writer, journalist, teacher
- Grace d’Almeida (1951β2005), Beninese lawyer, feminist and human rights activist
- Grace Greenwood Ames (1905β1979), American artist who worked predominantly in Mexico
- Grace Andreacchi (born 1954), American-born author
- Grace Andrews (mathematician) (1869β1951), American mathematician
- Grace Apiafi (born 1958), Nigerian shot putter and discus thrower
- Grace Arnold (1899β1979), English actress
- Grace Ayensu, Ghanaian politician
- Mary Grace Baloyo (died 2001), First Lieutenant in the Philippine Air Force
- Grace Bannister (1924β1986), Unionist politician in Northern Ireland
- Grace Bardsley (1920β1972), Australian Aboriginal rights activist and political activist
- Grace Barnsley (1896β1975), English pottery decorator
- Grace Bauer, American poet
- Grace Bawden (born 1992), Australian classical crossover singer
- Grace Bedell (1848β1936), American woman who influenced Abraham Lincoln to grow his famous beard
- Grace Benham (1876β1968), American silent film actress
- Grace Folashade Bent (born 1960), Nigerian politician
- Grace Berger (born 1999), American professional basketball
- Grace Beverley (born 1997), English entrepreneur, influencer, and podcaster
- Grace Bilger (1907β2000), American artist
- Grace Birungi (born 1973), Ugandan runner
- Grace Blakeley (born 1993), English economics and politics commentator, columnist, journalist and author
- Grace Lee Boggs (1915β2015), Chinese-American author, social activist and feminist
- Grace Bonney (born 1981), American author, blogger, and entrepreneur
- Grace Bowman (equestrian) (born 1990), Australian Paralympic equestrian
- Grace Duffie Boylan (1861?β1935), American writer
- Grace Bradley (1913β2010), American film actress
- Grace Brown (1886β1906), American skirt factory worker who was murdered
- Grace Brown (born 1992), Australian cyclist
- Grace Mann Brown (1859β1925), American writer and spiritual leader
- Grace Cuthbert-Browne (1900β1988), Australian medical doctor
- Grace Bumbry (1937β2023), American opera singer
- Grace Burbridge (1887β?), British suffragette, burned whilst setting fire to a postbox
- Grace Bussell (1860β1935), Australian heroine, involved in the rescue of the SS Georgette
- Grace Butler (1886β1962), New Zealand artist
- Grace Byers, Caymanian-American actress
- Grace Carlson (1906β1992), American communist politician
- Grace Carter (born 1989), British volleyball player
- Grace Cassidy (born 1993), English actress
- Grace Cavalieri (born 1932), American poet, playwright and broadcaster
- Grace Chan (born 1991), Canadian actress, television host, and beauty pageant titleholder
- Grace Chang (born 1933), Chinese actress and singer
- Grace Chatto (born 1985), English musician and singer
- Grace Chia, Singaporean writer, poet, journalist and editor
- Grace Zia Chu (1899β1999), American author of Chinese cookbooks
- Grace Clements (artist) (1905β1969), American artist
- Grace Clements (athlete) (born 1984), English heptathlete
- Grace Stone Coates (1881β1976), American writer
- Grace Coddington (born 1941), British former model and creative director of American Vogue magazine
- Grace Colman (1892β1971), British politician
- Grace Comiskey (c.β1894β1956), American owner of the Chicago White Sox
- Grace Conkling (1878β1958), American writer
- Grace Corbett (c.β1765/1770β1843), Scottish author and poet
- Grace Coolidge (1879β1957), First Lady of the United States; wife of President Calvin Coolidge
- Grace Inez Crawford (1889β1977), Paris-born England-based American singer, actress, costume designer, translator of plays and writer
- Grace Noll Crowell (1877β1969), American poet
- Grace Crowley (1890β1979), Australian artist
- Grace Cunard (1893β1967), American actress, screenwriter and film director
- Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (1879β1958), American socialite
- Grace Daley (born 1978), American professional women’s basketball player
- Grace Darling (1815β1842), Northumbrian Victorian heroine
- Grace Darmond (1893β1963), Canadian-born American actress
- Grace MontaΓ±ez Davis (1926β2020), Mexican-American political activist and deputy mayor of Los Angeles
- Grace Davison, American silent-movie actress
- Grace de Laguna (1878β1978), American philosopher and academic
- Grace Deeb (born 1975), Lebanese singer
- Grace DeMoss (born 1927), American amateur golfer
- Grace Dent (born 1973), English journalist, author and broadcaster
- Grace Diaz (born 1957), Dominican-American politician
- Grace Hoadley Dodge (1856β1914), American philanthropist
- Grace A. Dow (1869β1953), American philanthropist
- Grace L. Drake, American politician
- Grace Drayton (1877β1936), American comics artist
- Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay (1895β1946), British journalist and aviation pioneer
- Grace Dunham (born 1992), American poet and actress
- Grace Ekpiwhre (born 1949), Nigerian civil servant
- Grace Elizabeth (born 1997), American fashion model
- Grace Elliott (1758β1823), Scottish socialite and courtesan
- Grace Fernald (1879β1950), American educational psychologist
- Grace Flandrau (1886β1971), American writer
- Grace Fong, American musician and academic
- Grace Fortescue (1883β1979), American socialite
- Grace Frankland (1858β1946), English microbiologist
- Grace Fryer (1899-1933), American dialpainter
- Grace Voss Frederick (1905β2009), American actress and museum curator
- Grace Beacham Freeman (1916β2002), American poet, columnist, short story writer and educator
- Grace Fu (born 1964), Singaporean politician
- Grace Fulton (born 1996), American actress
- Grace Gao (born 1989), Canadian badminton player
- Grace Garland, American singer-songwriter and actress
- Grace Gassette (1871β1955), American artist and sculptor
- Grace George (1879β1961), American stage actress
- Grace Gibson (1905β1989), American radio producer who worked predominantly in Australia
- Grace Gifford (1888β1955), Irish artist and cartoonist
- Grace Gill-McGrath (born 1989), Australian soccer player
- Grace Glowicki, Canadian actress and filmmaker
- Grace Golden (1904β1993), English illustrator and historian
- Grace Goodell, American anthropologist
- Grace Grace (born 1958), Australian politician
- Grace Winifred Green (1907β1976), New Zealand radio broadcaster and journalist
- Grace Gregory (1901β1985), American film set decorator
- Grace Griffith, American folk and Celtic singer
- Grace Groner (1909β2010), American philanthropist
- Grace Gummer (born 1986), American actress
- Grace Eleanor Hadow (1875β1940), English author and academic
- Grace Halsell (1923β2000), American journalist and writer
- Grace Towns Hamilton (1907β1992), African-American politician
- Grace Hanagan (1906β1995), Canadian survivor of the sinking of the Empress of Ireland (1914)
- Grace Harris (1993), Australian cricketer
- Grace Hartigan (1922β2008), American abstract expressionist painter
- Grace Hartman (actress) (1907β1955), American stage and musical theater actress
- Grace Hartman (politician) (1900β1998), Canadian social activist and politician
- Grace Hartman (trade unionist) (1918β1993), Canadian labour union activist
- Grace Raymond Hebard (1861β1936), American historian, suffragist, writer and political economist
- Grace Helbig (born 1985), American comedian
- Grace Henderson (1860β1944), American stage and silent-film actress
- Grace Hightower (born 1955), American philanthropist, actress and singer
- Grace Livingston Hill (1865β1947), American novelist
- Grace Webster Haddock Hinsdale (1832β1902), American author
- Grace Hirst (1805β1901), New Zealand businesswoman, farmer, nurse and midwife
- Grace Ho (1907β1996), Chinese mother of Bruce Lee
- Grace Hopper (1906β1992), American computer scientist
- Grace Huang (born 1983), Australian actress
- Grace Hudson (1865β1937), American painter
- Grace Hyland, Australian internet personality and LGBTQ rights activist
- Grace Ingalls (1877β1941), American journalist and youngest sister of novelist Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Grace Ives (born 1995), American singer-songwriter
- Grace Jackson (born 1961), Jamaican athlete
- Grace James (1864β1930), British writer of children’s literature
- Grace Jantzen (1948β2006), Canadian feminist philosopher and theologian
- Grace Jane Joel (1865β1924), New Zealand artist
- Grace Mott Johnson (1882β1967), American artist
- Grace Jones (born 1948), Jamaican-born singer, actress and model
- Grace Jordan (1892β1985), American writer and journalist
- Grace Kamaikui (1808β1866), Hawaiian high chief
- Grace Kaufman (born 2002), American actress
- Grace Keagy (1921β2009), American actress
- Grace Keeling (born 1999), English influencer and presenter known as GK Barry
- Grace Kelly (1929β1982), American actress who became Princess Grace of Monaco
- Grace Kelly (musician) (born 1992), American musician
- Grace Kennedy (writer) (1782β1825), Scottish writer
- Grace Kennedy (singer) (born 1958), British singer and television presenter
- Grace Kim (born 2000), Australian professional golfer
- Grace Ji-Sun Kim (born 1969), Korean-American theologian and professor
- Grace Kimmins (1871β1954), British philanthropist
- Grace King (1852β1932), American writer
- Grace Knight (born 1955), English-born Australian musician
- Grace F. Knoche (1909β2006), American Theosophist, leader of the Theosophical Society
- Grace Anne Dorney Koppel, American lawyer and health activist
- Grace Krilanovich (born 1979), American writer
- Grace Lynn Kung (born 1987), Canadian actress
- Grace La Rue (1882β1956), American actress, singer, and Vaudeville performer
- Grace Lau (born 1991), Hong Kong karateka
- Grace Lee (born 1982), Korean television host and radio disc jockey
- Grace Etsuko Lee, Japanese-born American author, speaker, trainer, international business woman
- Grace Lin, American children’s author, and illustrator
- Grace Denio Litchfield (1849β1944), American novelist, poet
- Grace Llewellyn (born 1964), American educator, author and publisher
- Grace Annie Lockhart (1855β1916), Canadian, first woman in the British Empire to receive a bachelor’s degree
- Grace Loh (born 1991), Australian swimming champion
- Grace Lorch (c. 1903β1974), American teacher and civil rights activist
- Grace Lumpkin (1891β1980), American writer
- Grace Turk (softball) (born 1999), American softball player
- Grace Lyons (cricketer) (born 2005), Australian cricketer
- Grace Maccarone, children’s book editor and author
- Grace MacInnis (1905β1991), Canadian politician and feminist
- Grace Madden (1911β1987), American pair skater
- Grace, Lady Manners, English noblewoman, founder of Lady Manners School in 1636
- Grace Marks (c. 1828βafter c. 1873), Irish-Canadian convicted murderer, subsequently pardoned
- Grace Marra (born 1959), American musician
- Grace McCallum (born 2002), American artistic gymnast
- Grace McCarthy (1927β2017), Canadian politician
- Grace McCleen (born 1981), British writer
- Grace McDaniels (1888β1958), American freak show star
- Grace McDonald (1918β1999), American actress
- Grace McKeaney, American television writer, playwright and educator
- Grace McKenzie (1903β1988), English swimmer
- Grace Meng (born 1975), American lawyer and politician
- Grace Metalious (1924β1964), American author of Peyton Place
- Grace Mildmay (c. 1552β1620), English noblewoman, diarist and medical practitioner
- Grace Millane (1996β2018), murdered English tourist
- Grace Min (born 1994), American tennis player
- Grace Mirabella (1930β2021), American journalist
- Grace Mera Molisa (1946β2002), Vanuatuan politician, poet and campaigner for women’s equality in politics
- Grace Momanyi (born 1981), Kenyan long-distance runner
- Grace Moore (1898β1947), American operatic soprano and actress
- ChloΓ«-Grace Moretz (born 1997), American actress
- Grace Morgan (1909β1996), English cricketer
- Grace Morley (1900β1985), American museologist who founded museums in San Francisco and New Delhi
- Grace Mugabe (born 1965), wife of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe
- Grace Mukomberanwa (born 1944), Zimbabwean sculptor
- Grace Napolitano (born 1936), American politician
- Grace Natalie (born 1982), Indonesian politician
- Grace Nichols (born 1950), Guyanese poet
- Grace Nicholson (1877β1948), American art collector and art dealer
- Grace Nikae, Japanese-born American classical pianist
- Grace Nono (born 1965), Filipino singer
- Grace Nuhfer (born 2002), American Paralympic swimmer
- Grace Oakeshott (1872β1929), British women’s rights activist
- Grace O’Malley (c. 1530βc. 1603), Irish chieftain and pirate
- Grace Ogot (1930β2015), Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat
- Grace Atkinson Oliver (1844β1899), American author, advocate of women’s rights
- Grace Padaca (born 1963), Filipino politician
- Grace Paley (1922β2007), American short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist
- Grace Park (actress) (born 1974), American-born Canadian actress
- Grace Park (golfer) (born 1979), South Korean professional golfer
- Grace Parra, American screenwriter, presenter, and actress
- Grace Perry (1927β1987), Australian poet, editor and pediatrician
- Grace Petrie (born 1987), English folk singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Grace Phipps (born 1992), American actress
- Grace Evelyn Pickford (1902β1986), English-born American biologist and endocrinologist
- Grace Poe (born 1968), Filipino politician
- Grace Portolesi (born 1968), Australian politician
- Grace Potter (born 1983), American lead singer of rock band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
- Grace Randolph (born 1987), American film reporter and critic
- Grace Rasmussen (born 1988), New Zealand netball player
- Grace Renzi (1922β2011), American artist
- Grace Rhys (1865β1929), Irish writer
- Grace S. Richmond (1866β1959), American writer
- Grace Robertson (1930β2021), Scottish photographer
- Grace Rohrer (1924β2011), American educator, arts and women’s rights activist and politician
- Grace Rolek (born 1997), American actress
- Grace Alexandra Rood (1893β1981), New Zealand school dental nurse
- Grace Roosevelt (1867β1945), American tennis player
- Grace Ross (born 1961), American environmental activist
- Grace Sandhouse (1896β1940), American entomologist
- Grace Berg Schaible (1925β2017), American lawyer, the first female state’s attorney general
- Grace Schulman (born 1935), American poet and academic
- Grace Carew Sheldon (1855β1921), American journalist, author, editor, businesswoman
- Grace Sherwood (died 1740), American woman convicted of witchcraft in the U.S. state of Virginia in 1705β1706
- Grace Slick (born 1939), American rock vocalist
- Grace Cossington Smith (1892β1984), Australian artist
- Grace Snyder (1882β1982), American quilter, pioneer and centenarian
- Grace Harriet Spofford (1887β1974), American music educator
- Gracie Spinks (died 2021), English lifeguard believed to have been murdered
- Grace Stafford (1903β1992), American actress
- Grace Stanke (born 2002), American beauty pageant titleholder
- Grace Zaring Stone (1891β1991), American novelist and short story writer
- Grace Stratton (born 1999), New Zealand blogger and fashion entrepreneur
- Grace Sulzberger (born 1988), Australian cyclist
- Grace Tame (born 1994), Australian activist and sexual assault survivor advocate
- Grace Tanamal (born 1957), Dutch politician
- Grace Taylor (gymnast) (born 1988), American gymnast
- Grace Dyer Taylor (1859β1867), English Christian missionary in China
- Grace Paine Terzian (born 1952), American political writer and publishing executive
- Grace Thompson (1891β?), American silent film actress
- Grace Hyde Trine (1874β1972), American writer, lecturer, dramatic reader
- Grace Tsutada (born 1942), Japanese teacher and missionary
- Grace Tully (1900β1984), American presidential private secretary (to Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Grace Tyson (1881β1941), American Vaudeville performer and actress
- Grace Upshaw (born 1975), American track and field athlete
- Grace Van Dien (born 1996), American actress and social media personality
- Grace Van Studdiford (1873β1927), American opera singer and actress
- Grace Van Patten (born 1996), American actress
- Grace Valentine (1884β1964), American actress
- Grace Vanderbilt (1870β1953), American socialite
- Grace VanderWaal (born 2004), American singer-songwriter
- Grace Wahba (born 1934), American statistician and academic
- Grace Wahu (c. 1907β2007), first wife of Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya
- Grace Jane Wallace (died 1878), Scottish author and translator
- Grace Wanjiru (born 1979), Kenyan race walker
- Grace Miller White (1868β1957), American author
- Grace Lee Whitney (1930β2015), American actress and entertainer
- Grace Widdowson (1892β1989), New Zealand nurse and hospital matron
- Grace Olive Wiley (1883β1948), American herpetologist
- Grace Williams (1906β1977), Welsh composer
- Grace Wilson (1879β1957), Australian high-ranked army nurse during World War I and World War II
- Grace Wilson (soccer) (born 2005), Australian football player
- Grace Wong (born 1986), Hong Kong-born actress
- Grace Woodward (born 1978), English fashion stylist and television presenter
- Grace Wyndham Goldie (1900β1986), British pioneer television producer
- Grace Chisholm Young (1868β1944), English mathematician
- Grace Young (fl.β2006βpresent), Canadian-born American singer, songwriter musician known as Grace
- Grace Sari Ysidora (born 1995), Indonesian professional tennis player
- Grace Zabriskie (born 1941), American actress
- Grace Zumwinkle (born 1999), American ice hockey player
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