My advice: Use the name you love. It may be popular, it may not. But it is your choice - use what you love. Names aren't something you should settle on.

Counter anecdote -- I have 2 kids, 4 and 7, and have not yet met a Grace in any of their classes or extra-curriculars. The only (younger) Grace I know is college aged.

Anonymous wrote:Suuuuper common. I have 3 in a single class period this year. I’ve never had more than one Ava/Sophia/Ella at a time.

This is helpful. What age roughly are the students?

I have two objections to this name. One, it's so, so popular. My neighborhood is pretty Catholic and it's definitely a top 3 name.

My second is that I think it comes out sounding like "Greace"

If you love the name, use it.

-Mother of a Charlotte with ZERO regrets despite there always being another Charlotte in her classes.

It was common in 1920

It's beautiful and was very popular a few years ago - I think less so now. We did not use it because we were afraid of the popularity (used it for a mn instead) and there are no other Graces in my kids' entire K-5 school...

It’s beautiful. But very popular.

Suuuuper common. I have 3 in a single class period this year. I’ve never had more than one Ava/Sophia/Ella at a time.

It's even more common as a middle name. Have you considered Graciela? That's beautiful.

Anonymous wrote:It's super common IME. My daughter's American Heritage Group has at least 4 girls named Grace.

*American Heritage Girls Troop

It's super common IME. My daughter's American Heritage Group has at least 4 girls named Grace.

I would use it as a mn.

I like it a lot too, but spending time with a friend who is an ECE teacher made me take it off my shortlist. She said there's never a year she doesn't have a Grace, and some years as many as three. I thought it was more "classic but not common" but apparently that's just wishful thinking.

We like Grace. Was this ever an Ava, Emma, Sophie, Olivia name? I think it's cooled off a little since the early 2000's.