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The first name 
Gracious

Gracious is a first name for girls.

Gracious – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Gracious in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Gracious in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Gracious by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Gracious ranks at #9,556. That means there are 9,555 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Gracious

Gracious has 8 letters 
and begins with a G

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 2.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a G. The most common first letters for girls' names are A and S, while U and X are the least common first letters of girls' names.

With eight letters, the name Gracious is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

This means that if 2.1% of all girls' names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with a G and are extremely popular, for example Grace, currently the most common girls' name with G.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Gracious

If your name is Gracious and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Gracious

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Gracious, you can simply say:

Goat

Rocket

Apple

Cat

Igloo

Orange

Unicorn

Sun

This is how the name Gracious is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Gracious in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Gracious

Gracious

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Gracious

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Gracious is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

G
R
A
C
I
O
U
S

Have you ever waved the name Gracious

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

G
R
A
C
I
O
U
S

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Gracious sounds like this: