Like other virtue names, Grace was not much used in England before the 16th C, but unlike other virtue names, it shows up elsewhere much earlier.
- England
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- Latin
- ● 1558 Gratia (nom) StMartF p. 59;
1559/60 Grace (nom) Chst-1 p. 10;
1560 Gracia (nom) ibid. p. 10;
1561 Grace (nom) ibid. p. 10;
1579 Gracia (nom) Reg-KirkElla p. 9,
Gratia (nom) ibid. p. 9
- Early Modern English
- ● 1530 Grace LIWill-III p. 3;
1532–1533 Grace CovGuild-2 p. 97;
1534 Grace ibid. p. 126;
1542 Grace BarnstapleBap p. 2;
1543 Grace StAnthonlin p. 4;
1545 Grace BarnstapleBap p. 4;
1548 Grace ibid. p. 6;
1551 Grace ibid. p. 7;
1552 Grace StAnthonlin p. 9;
1553 Grace BarnstapleBap p. 8;
1554 Grace ibid. p. 8;
1555 Grace ibid. p. 9;
1556 Grace ibid. p. 9,
StAnthonlin p. 11;
1557 Grace BarnstapleBap p. 10;
1559 Grace ibid. p. 10,
StMaryA p. 3;
1562 Grace BarnstapleBap p. 12;
1565 Grace COmar-vol5 p. 126;
1567 Grace ibid. p. 84;
1568 Grace StAnthonlin p. 19;
1573 Grace COmar-vol5 p. 4;
1574 Grace bruton1 p. 41;
1575 Grace COmar-vol5 p. 5,
StAnthonlin p. 24;
1577 Grace DEmar-vol1 p. 83;
1578 Grace COmar-vol5 p. 85;
1579 Grace bruton1 p. 43;
1580 Grace StAnthonlin p. 28;
1582 Grace COmar-vol5 p. 85;
1583 Grace COmar-vol2 p. 49,
DEmar-vol2 p. 8,
HAmar-vol9 p. 68;
1585 Grace DEmar-vol2 p. 11,
OrpingtonKe p. 7;
1586 Grace COmar-vol2 p. 102,
DEmar-vol1 p. 85;
1587 Grace COmar-vol5 p. 8;
1589 Grace COmar-vol2 p. 23,
DEmar-vol2 p. 19;
1590 Grace Bar-in-El p. 30,
COmar-vol2 p. 72,
DEmar-vol2 p. 21,
RegPat p. 4;
1592 Grace COmar-vol2 p. 49,
DEmar-vol2 p. 25,
WAmar-1 p. 16;
1593 Grace COmar-vol2 p. 24,
DEmar-vol2 p. 27,
RegBath p. 10;
1594 Grace COmar-vol2 p. 102,
DEmar-vol1 p. 87,
RegBath p. 10;
1596 Grace CAmar-vol1 p. 6,
DEmar-vol2 p. 34;
1598 Grace ibid. p. 39;
1599 Grace COmar-vol2 p. 73,
WAmar-1 p. 16,
bruton1 p. 57
- France
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- Latin
- ● 1287 Gracia (nom) GasReg-A p. 74
- Italy
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- Latin
- ● 1265x1339 Gracia (nom) BBC-Berg 42;
1285 Gratie (gen) Perugia1285 p. 161;
1387 Gratia (abl) Venditti II-56
- Italian
- ● 1429–1430 Gratia DiaryLMA p. 224
- Portugal
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- Latin
- ● 1217 Gratiæ (gen) PHGCRP-I no. 21
- Spain
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- Latin
- ● 1492 Gratia (nom) carbonell-I p. 66
- Catalan
- ● 1510 Gracia valencia1510 3428
- Spanish
- ● 1496 Gratia olite1496 p. 182;
1576 Gracia Catalogo-5.2 3924
- Wales
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- Welsh
- ● 1582 Grace RegCon1 p. 37
Cite as: A. Brown, S.L. Uckelman. "Grace". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2020, no. 1. http://dmnes.org/2020/1/name/Grace.