Gracja
Fewer than 400 women in Poland carry Gracja, so most people have never met one. Births are slowly ticking up though: more girls were given it last year than in most years before. It comes from Latin, meaning grace or favor.
Gracja Pronunciation
Gracja is pronounced GRAHTS-yah (/ˈgrat͡sja/).
What Gracja means
Where Gracja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gracja descends from the Latin gratia, a word that meant grace and favor, along with the pleasing quality that makes a person welcome. The Romans gave that word a divine shape in the Gratiae, the three goddesses the Greeks had called the Charites. Gracja came into Polish as a feminine given name resting on the same root.
In Polish the meaning splits cleanly into two, wdzięk and łaska, charm on one side and favor on the other. The old gratia sits under both. It is a rare choice on a class register.
The name stays uncommon. When a teacher reads it during roll call, the Latin behind the modern spelling does its work without anyone noticing. Gracja has not wandered far from where it began: grace, and the favor a name can hold.
When Gracja celebrates name day
Gracja appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 13 June.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Gracja
1 in 56643 women in Poland is named Gracja. 398 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1485 among female names.
Gracja's popularity over time
13 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #633 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2012.
Where Gracja is most popular
Gracja is most popular in Greater Poland, 180% above the national average (12 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+139%) and Lower Silesian (+124%). It is least common in Łódź and Subcarpathian, 21% and 17% below average respectively.
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Greater Poland12 girls born+180%
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Pomeranian7 girls born+139%
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Lower Silesian7 girls born+124%
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Świętokrzyskie2 girls born+81%
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Masovian9 girls born+28%
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Lublin2 girls born−2%
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Subcarpathian2 girls born−17%
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Łódź2 girls born−21%
Gracja as a middle name
Gracja is a first name for 398 women in Poland and a middle name for another 437, a 48/52 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 333rd, between Gracjana (439) and Ruth (436).
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#331 Mariia445
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#332 Gracjana439
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#333 Gracja437
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#334 Ruth436
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#335 Blandyna426