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Grace (given name)

Grace is a female name from the Latin gratia. It is often given in reference to the Christian concept of divine grace and used as a virtue name. As one of the theological virtues, Grace was in regular use by English Puritans in the 16th through the 18th centuries. The name also has connotations of physical grace, beauty, and charm.

The name was revived in the mid 19th century and was popularized in the Anglosphere by the fame of Grace Darling, a British woman who saved nine people from a shipwreck in 1838. Usage of the name increased for British girls in the late 1830s and 1840s. Many British and Irish girls named Grace then immigrated to the United States, where they passed the name Grace down to their descendants. Grace declined in use in the United Kingdom after 1870, but ranked among the top 100 names given to American girls from the 1860s to the late 1930s. The name was out of fashion from the 1940s through the 1980s, but rose in popularity in the Anglosphere after 1990. Usage of the name increased due to popular culture influences such as a character on the American television comedy series Will and Grace, which originally aired from 1998 to 2006. Grace has been a particularly well-used name in the United States throughout the 20th and 21st centuries for women and girls whose families are from a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean background. The names is often chosen for women of East Asian descent due to its Christian religious significance or because it is an English translation of a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean name with a similar meaning.

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  • Grace Ingalls (1877–1941), American journalist and youngest sister of novelist Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Grace Ives (born 1995), American singer-songwriter

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  • Grace La Rue (1882–1956), American actress, singer, and Vaudeville performer
  • Grace Lau (born 1991), Hong Kong karateka
  • Grace Lee (born 1982), Korean television host and radio disc jockey
  • Grace Etsuko Lee, Japanese-born American author, speaker, trainer, international business woman
  • Grace Lin, American children's author, and illustrator
  • Grace Denio Litchfield (1849–1944), American novelist, poet
  • Grace Llewellyn (born 1964), American educator, author and publisher
  • Grace Annie Lockhart (1855–1916), Canadian, first woman in the British Empire to receive a bachelor's degree
  • Grace Loh (born 1991), Australian swimming champion
  • Grace Lorch (c. 1903–1974), American teacher and civil rights activist
  • Grace Lumpkin (1891–1980), American writer
  • Grace Lyons (cricketer) (born 2005), Australian cricketer

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  • Grace Oakeshott (1872–1929), British women's rights activist
  • Grace O'Malley (c. 1530–c. 1603), Irish chieftain and pirate
  • Grace Ogot (1930–2015), Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat
  • Grace Atkinson Oliver (1844–1899), American author, advocate of women's rights

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  • Grace Tame (born 1994), Australian activist and sexual assault survivor advocate
  • Grace Tanamal (born 1957), Dutch politician
  • Grace Taylor (gymnast) (born 1988), American gymnast
  • Grace Dyer Taylor (1859–1867), English Christian missionary in China
  • Grace Paine Terzian (born 1952), American political writer and publishing executive
  • Grace Thompson (1891–?), American silent film actress
  • Grace Hyde Trine (1874–1972), American writer, lecturer, dramatic reader
  • Grace Tsutada (born 1942), Japanese teacher and missionary
  • Grace Tully (1900–1984), American presidential private secretary (to Franklin D. Roosevelt)
  • Grace Turk (born 1999), American softball player
  • Grace Tyson (1881–1941), American Vaudeville performer and actress

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  • Grace Upshaw (born 1975), American track and field athlete

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  • Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944), English mathematician
  • Grace Young (), Canadian-born American singer, songwriter musician known as Grace
  • Grace Sari Ysidora (born 1995), Indonesian professional tennis player

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