Fun Facts About the Name Grecia
- More than 6 thousand babies named Grecia: U.S. records list 6,317 babies given the name Grecia from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Grecia Mean?
Grecia is the Spanish and Italian name for the country of Greece, and as a given name it carries that same literal sense: "Greece." It descends from the Latin Graecia, the Roman term for the Greek lands, which in turn comes from the ethnic name Graeci, Latin's word for the Greeks. That Latin term is related to the Greek Graikos, an old name connected with a Hellenic people of Epirus. Greek speakers themselves normally called their country Hellas and themselves Hellenes; "Greek" and its relatives are terms that came to the wider world mainly through Latin usage. The name's meaning is geographical rather than a virtue or a phrase, so it is best understood simply as "Greece" rather than as a translation of a sentence-like meaning.
Grecia Name History & Origins
The word behind the name is the Latin Graecia, used by Roman writers for the Greek peninsula and the Greek settlements around the Mediterranean. Latin took it from Graeci, the label Romans applied to the Greeks, which is related to the Greek Graikos. The older and more uncertain part of the story is where Graikos itself came from: it is tied to a tribe of Epirus called the Graikoi, and ancient writers offered traditional explanations, such as a descent from a figure named Graikos. Those accounts are traditional rather than firmly documented, so the deeper origin of the root remains debated.
Through Latin the word passed into the Romance languages as the ordinary country name: Spanish Grecia, Italian Grecia, French Grèce. As a personal name, Grecia is used in Spanish-speaking countries, where it belongs to the broad category of given names taken directly from place names. Its use as a personal name is separate from the long history of the word as a geographic and ethnic term, and the two should not be conflated.
How Popular is the Name Grecia?
Grecia recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2006. Its best rank was #988 in 1988.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,138 | 204 | 0.0127% |
| 2024 | #1,160 | 207 | 0.0128% |
| 2023 | #1,159 | 209 | 0.0130% |
| 2022 | #1,448 | 154 | 0.0094% |
| 2021 | #1,422 | 152 | 0.0093% |
| 2020 | #1,425 | 153 | 0.0095% |
| 2019 | #1,418 | 158 | 0.0094% |
| 2018 | #1,401 | 160 | 0.0094% |
| 2017 | #1,567 | 140 | 0.0081% |
| 2016 | #1,406 | 165 | 0.0093% |
| 2015 | #1,382 | 171 | 0.0096% |
| 2014 | #1,529 | 143 | 0.0080% |
| 2013 | #1,326 | 177 | 0.0101% |
| 2012 | #1,258 | 192 | 0.0109% |
| 2011 | #1,492 | 150 | 0.0085% |
| 2010 | #1,652 | 129 | 0.0073% |
| 2009 | #1,532 | 148 | 0.0081% |
| 2008 | #1,410 | 169 | 0.0089% |
| 2007 | #1,185 | 215 | 0.0112% |
| 2006 | #1,139 | 216 | 0.0114% |
| 2005 | #1,146 | 203 | 0.0110% |
| 2004 | #1,131 | 202 | 0.0110% |
| 2003 | #1,083 | 204 | 0.0112% |
| 2002 | #1,271 | 155 | 0.0086% |
| 2001 | #1,207 | 169 | 0.0094% |
| 2000 | #1,247 | 157 | 0.0086% |
| 1999 | #1,494 | 115 | 0.0065% |
| 1998 | #1,384 | 124 | 0.0070% |
| 1997 | #1,189 | 153 | 0.0088% |
| 1996 | #1,589 | 98 | 0.0056% |
| 1995 | #1,325 | 125 | 0.0071% |
| 1994 | #1,419 | 113 | 0.0063% |
| 1993 | #1,232 | 141 | 0.0078% |
| 1992 | #1,361 | 122 | 0.0066% |
| 1991 | #1,176 | 149 | 0.0079% |
| 1990 | #1,400 | 113 | 0.0060% |
| 1989 | #1,165 | 141 | 0.0076% |
| 1988 | #988 | 167 | 0.0094% |
| 1987 | #1,124 | 133 | 0.0076% |
| 1986 | #1,845 | 61 | 0.0036% |
| 1985 | #2,327 | 43 | 0.0025% |
| 1978 | #7,910 | 7 | 0.0005% |
| 1973 | #8,875 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1971 | #8,759 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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