Grace, one of the most popular virtue names of all time, comes from the English word grace and Latin word gratia, meaning "the charming quality of being polite and pleasant, or a willingness to be fair and to forgive." Grace was a top-100 girl's name in the U.S. every year between 1900 and 1938 before nearly falling out of the top-400 in the 1970s. It has since made a comeback and has been a top-50 girl's name every year since 1999. It was also the name Pippa Middleton, the sister of Kate Middleton, gave her daughter Grace Elizabeth Jane, born in 2021.
