Grecia
Feminine · “Greece”
Grecia is the Spanish and Italian name for Greece, carried over into use as a given name — a country's name worn by a person, the way Italia and India are. It keeps the open vowels of the language it comes from, three syllables that land softly: GREH-see-ah. In American records it sits most thickly in Texas, California and Arizona, which is the map of Spanish-speaking families in this country.
How old is the name Grecia?
Grecia first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Grecia alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 6,300 people named Grecia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Grecia most popular?
Grecia peaked in 1988, reaching #986 nationally. Today it ranks #1137, 151 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Graikos to Grecia
The story of Grecia
The Romans called the Greek world Graecia, borrowing from Graikoi, a name used for a Greek people before Hellas became the standard word — and Magna Graecia, Greater Greece, was their term for the Greek-founded cities of southern Italy and Sicily. That Latin form passed almost unchanged into Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, which is why Spanish speakers still write Grecia on a map today. As a personal name it belongs to the Spanish-language habit of naming daughters for places and nations, alongside forms like Italia and América. There is also a town called Grecia in the Costa Rican highlands, in Alajuela province.
Meaning
Greece; the land of the Greeks
Grecia is simply the word for Greece in Spanish and Italian, from Latin Graecia, itself from Greek Graikos, an early term for the Greek people.
How the name formed
- Graikos
- Graecia
- Grecia
Related forms: Grecia · Grecia · Graecia · Grécia · Greece
Pronouncing Grecia
GREH-see-ah
That is the Latin American Spanish pronunciation; in Spain the c is a soft th, GREH-thya. English speakers who meet the spelling cold often try GREE-shuh or GRESH-uh, so expect to correct it in non-Spanish-speaking settings.
Nicknames for Grecia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1971
- Most girls named
- 2006216 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #986reached in 1988
- Change vs 2024
- −1.9%204 in 2025, from 208
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Grecia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Grecia in Spanish — same name
- Grecia in Italian — same name
- Graecia in Latin — same name
- Grécia in Portuguese — spelling variant
- Greece in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Arizona.
Grecias among us
people named Grecia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 7,879 born in 2025 was named Grecia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Dotty test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Grecia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dotty climbed just as high around 1939, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dotty's path sketches the road Grecia is walking now.
Grecia is on its second act. Revived names age gently: the generation that wore them first is far enough away that the name feels classic rather than dated.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Grecia is headed
Grecia looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 15% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Grecia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Grecia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled identically in Spanish, Italian and Latin, so it needs no adjustment when it crosses between those languages.
- The meaning is transparent to any Spanish or Italian speaker — no explanation required.
- Five letters, one clear spelling, and fully phonetic in Spanish.
- Has real established diminutives in Greci and Grecita, rather than needing one invented.
- Outside Spanish-speaking settings the pronunciation will drift toward GREE-shuh or GRESH-uh, and the correction becomes a small lifelong routine.
- It is very close to Gracia and Grace, which are a different name entirely, from the Latin for grace. Expect the three to be confused in writing and on rosters.
- Being named for a country invites the question of whether the family has a tie to Greece — often a pleasant conversation, but a recurring one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Grecias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,300 people named Grecia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Grecia in 2025?
- Grecia ranks #1137 among US girl names in 2025, with 204 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Grecia?
- About 1 in every 7,879 US girls born in 2025 was named Grecia — 204 in all.
- Will my child share the name Grecia with classmates?
- Grecia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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