Grace as a first name

[FeelTheRush]

Just read the 'Rose as a middle name' thread and Grace gets a lot of collateral heat. I'm contemplating it as first name for my first (and likely only) child. Is it less 'meh' as a first name?

I’m a teacher and every single Grace I’ve known is anything but….

Just makes me think of resident evil.

Beautiful name

I love Grace, it’s a really pretty name.

I think it's a beautiful name but it's my eldest daughter's name so I am biased!

Love Grace

I like Grace, it's very sweet and quite timeless. On the theme of virtue names I can't stand Hope because every one I've ever met there's been a tragic backstory for why they were named that and it's always felt like saddling the child with generational trauma from birth!

Grace is a beautiful name and a timeless classic, I really love it.

It’s a lovely name.

I love the name Grace. I think it’s so pretty

Grace is a gorgeous name and so is Rose. I've known lovely people with these names and cannot understand why there is so much antipathy against them on MN.

Thank you everyone!

Is it less 'meh' as a first name? Definitely.
Some friends have an adult daughter called Grace and she's graceful and gracious.

I'm not against names that are well-liked, and I agree Grace is, but I have a thing of really not liking names beginning with a hard "G": Gerda, Grace, Gavin etc

I just don't like the sound and for some reason that hard G coming at the start of a one syllable name creates quite a heavy sound that to me is anything but graceful. It sounds like pans banging together to me!

Eta much prefer Rose!

But I wouldn't let the popularity alone put you off.

Grace was on our shortlist ✨ beautiful name

The name is fine, nothing awful about it but it’s a bit wishy washy for me. If you like it, stick to it! As long as you like it , it really doesn’t matter what others think. Asking people’s options on names will always make one think.

The one I know is utterly gorgeous, and it’s a really lovely name.

Grace is a beautiful name. Stick to your guns @FeelTheRush . ❤️

I'm so sorry OP bit it's a greasy name to me

Lovely name!

I think its a very nice name.

Pretty name!

Lovely timeless name.

I love Grace and Rose as first names.
Louise and Jane were popular as second names when I was growing up - I much prefer them as first names, too.

For me because it’s always used hyphenated after Mia/Willow/Olivia/Amelia/Isla/Evie it just falls into generic girl’s name catagory. If you like it then use it, but it’s nothing unusual. And I say this as someone who’s DC have popular names.