Grâce

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Grace in US United States, PH Philippines, AU Australia and 23 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Grâce is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name137 records spelled Grâce2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

  Also written Grace

• Greek given name27 records spelled Grâce3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States, Congo - Kinshasa, United Kingdom

  Also written Grace, Γκρεις

• a separate given name21 records spelled Grâce3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India

  Also written Grace, Gracé

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

BE Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) — 15 years between 1997–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Grace Shokkosb. 1992CDHandball player from Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Grâce Zaadib. 1993FRFrench handball player
• Jeannette Yangob. 1993CMnot in their usual nameassociation football player from Cameroon
• Grâce Mfwambab. 1998CDDR Congolese footballer
• Grâce Senyob. 2002TGFencer from Togo

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 22 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Grâce?

We estimate roughly 352 thousand people bear Grâce (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Grâce have the most bearers?

Grâce is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled grace.

How common is Grâce compared with other names?

In the Philippines, Grâce is the 17th most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.

Is Grâce a male or female name?

Grâce is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Grâce mean?

Recorded meaning: grace, charm