Graça: Surname History and Family Crest

What can public data say about the Graça family name? Quite a lot. In Wikidata, Graça is listed as a Portuguese surname. The meaning of Graça is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records. Census returns, passenger lists and civil registers are the best places to follow a Graça line back.

In the 2010 US Census, 629 Americans gave Graça as their last name (rank 35,721). From 1891 to 2000, 330 births in France were registered under Graça.

Sharing the Graça name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families. Want more than a summary? See the Graça family name pack.