Grace

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

English name

1) From the abstract noun (originally from Latin gratia = 'grace') [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

2) Anglicized form of Gráinne [1]

Related Names

Grace
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Gracia
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Norwegian Swedish

See also Gratiana

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Grace
Genitive: Graces
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Grace
Genitive: Gracen
Partitive: Gracea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Grace
Genitive: Graces
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Grace
Genitive: Graces

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[8]
671 1880 659 1861 12 19
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
714
n.a.
714 0 0
Denmark Denmark[10]
305
n.a.
299
n.a.
6
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[11]
10 40
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
365
n.a.
359
n.a.
6
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Grace (f) Sources: [8][10][13][9]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  7. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. 10.0 10.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no