Do you like the name Grace?

[PurpleTrees1988]

Thanks :)

I love it. Couldn’t have it for our dds as our surname would have made it sound repetitive.

Yes, I have one too. She’s well into her third decade now, so there weren’t as many Graces around when she was a child.
She wasn’t the most graceful of children but always knew her own mind so ‘owned’ her name.

I have one in her 20s. She was Gracie as a littly, Gray as a teenager, and Grace as an adult. Still love it and so does she.

It's lovely, I came across Gracienne the other day you may like that?

I've always found it a bit insipid.
Fine if you're slim, beautiful and graceful.
Not so good if you're large and clumsy.

I prefer Gracie

It's a very pretty name.

I'd say Gracienne as Grassy-En. I don't like it.

I like it

I don't know why there is this assumption that being called Grace means you have to be willowy and graceful, it's absolute rubbish.

I have one !!
I decide that even if she was clumsy there are different types of Grace.
She’s 13 and there were no other Graces in her year at Primary (90 children) and there are none in her year at her small Secondary.
There seem to be a few Gracies around further down the school though

I have a Grace. Yet to meet another child named Grace!

ThomasHardy...that's the purpose of language for you! To convey meaning! It doesn't mean you have to BE it, it makes you THINK it.... Grace has a specific meaning. Like the poster who wanted to call her child 'Rogue'. That thread took off with negative comments immediately.

No because although a nice name:

Its over used
What if the child is ahem not in anyway graceful opens them up to sniggering
Every Grace we have known has been vile. Both dc have a "gruesome Grace" in their lives so the name has been ruined for us twice over.

No, partly because it is very overused, partly because it’s a hard name to carry off if you are big and clumsy.

No, sorry it's my middle name and I dislike it.

I love it. I know quite a few but it doesn't really bother me because it's so lovely.

I like it when it's pronounced with a Southern accent. But with a Northern accent the flat "a" sound is awful.

Yes, it's gorgeous. And it really doesn't matter if she turns out to me chunky and clumsy. I know an adult chunky, clumsy Grace who totally fits her name because she has such good grace about life, is such a lovely person. Grace doesn't just mean graceful. I like the connotation it has of behaving with good grace.

I presume it became a popular name for the religious concept of 'Grace', not the idea of being graceful in movement. I think it was a puritan thing.

When we named our dd Grace nearly 23 years ago it was a very unusual name. We discovered later that lots of people thought we had named her because we had had fertility issues. We didn't- we had been childless by choice for 10 years- and chose the name because of a character in LA Law!

i liked it ...and Fleur for dd, but both were cast aside for fear of her not suiting them and it being a joke...as pp have said.

I'm not a fan. I don't like the look of it written down, and I don't like names with a 'Gr' sound at the beginning as I find it a harsh sound.

It's OK as a middle name I suppose.

I know I'm in a minority, it's very popular.

I like it. It's my middle name and I'm nearly 45. Hated it when I was a kid as it wasn't popular then. My niece is a Grace in her twenties and I also know some Grace's who are ds's age (10).

Timeless classic.