Name in Japanese G Grace

Grace in Japanese

グレイス
Katakana
グレイス
Hiragana
ぐれいす
Romaji (Hepburn)
Gureisu

This is the established spelling used for Grace in Japanese dictionaries, books and media.

How Grace sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Gu
Re
I
Su

Full reading: Gureisu

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Why Grace is written in katakana

In Japanese, foreign names are written in katakana — the angular script reserved for words borrowed from other languages. So on a form, a name tag, a delivery slip or a news article in Japan, Grace appears as グレイス. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees グレイス and immediately reads it by its sound, Gureisu.

Katakana is a syllabary, so English sounds are fitted to the nearest Japanese syllables and every consonant (except ん) is followed by a vowel. That is why Grace becomes グレイス rather than a letter-for-letter copy. More than one katakana spelling can be reasonable for the same name, which is why we flag whether a spelling is a long-established one or a natural default.