Grace

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I know this is mainly used a filler for a middle name but how often is it used as a first name?

I think its classic and beautiful

I like it. It was 18th most popular in England and Wales in 2023
www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsgirls/2023/girlsnames2023.xlsx

Lovely name 😊

I'm 25 and I knew loads of Graces growing up. It became quite popular in the 2000s but it's popularity has dwindled in recent years. It is a classic though, and it's not dated to the early 21st Century.

I has an Auntie Grace. I love the be.

Grace is perfect. Well known, great history and meaning and not a top ten right now.

I love the name . The only thing against I'd say, is one lady I know called Grace, who hated her name. She was extremely overweight (over max of bathroom scales) and so felt her name was embarrassing. It put me off using it. I know other people called Grace who love their names.

Cute name and nothing ‘wrong’ with it. Just really boring and bit ‘blurgh’ imo

So overused imo. I inwardly sigh when I hear it...in the same vein as Evie

I do like it but it’s a boring name, I’d say better as a middle name.

Massively overused as a middle name and tbh a bit dull as a first name. As a pp said, it’s in the same catagory as Evie. There are a lot of them.

There are two in my daughter’s nursery in her age group, and we know another two. All under 2 years old.

Any descriptive name is a real risk...I wouldn't for a first name. A dyspraxic overweight girl would not thank you!

Overused. We know lots the main two are both horrible and the exact opposite of graceful. Graceless more like.

I like it

I’m not keen on it at all.

I love the name Grace and every Grace I know is really lovely. I know about 5 teenage Graces but that's across a million teenage girls I know through work and a teenage daughter who goes to an all girls school and does competitive sports etc!

Know two that are 10

Grace is an absolute classic. Far better to choose a classic name which has stood the test of time and will continue to do so, than something trendy and 'of the moment'.

It annoys me when people refer to it as a 'filler middle name' (this site seems to be obsessed with labelling this, Rose and May as filler names). It has been popular throughout the generations, therefore for many many people it is a family name. Added to the fact it's only 1 syllable and therefore flows perfectly with lots of names, it makes for the perfect middle name and it's totally understandable why so many people use it. Filler suggests no thought has gone into it, whereas for many who use it it will carry meaning which imo is far better than choosing a random name just because it's less popular. That would be the definition of 'filler' to me.

I like it, but I’d never use it or want to be called it, on the basis that I’m more clumsy than graceful and I think the name would be a bit of a burden!