Meaning not yet researched.
Jace: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,083 in 2025. Its best rank was #66 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #66 in 2013; #114 in 2025. About 99.7% of babies named Jace in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#114 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #66.
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Jace: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,083 boys in 2025. Peak: #66 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 6,401 (2013).
In 2025, 3,083 US boys were named Jace, making it the 114th most common boys’ name of the year, the same rank as in 2024. That is 44 fewer than the 3,127 boys named Jace in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #66, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 6,401. For comparison, it was #75 in 2015 and #3,927 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jace in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1936 with 5 babies. In all, 92,412 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 47,821 babies named Jace.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 38,719 US boys were named Jace; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 5,208. In 2025 that was about 1 in 554 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jace ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #45 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 16 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Jason (1,057,058 babies since 1880), Jay (198,132 babies since 1880), Jayce (47,162 babies since 1880) and Jack (759,677 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jayace and Jaiyce are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jayace (38), Jaiyce (20).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jace in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 74 | #45 | #24 |
| Wyoming | 9 | #49 | #13 |
| Hawaii | 14 | #58 | #72 |
| Vermont | 7 | #72 | #47 |
| North Dakota | 14 | #80 | #50 |
| Maryland | 67 | #80 | #87 |
| Connecticut | 42 | #86 | #91 |
| Alabama | 58 | #87 | #65 |
| Georgia | 130 | #87 | #57 |
| Iowa | 41 | #89 | #47 |
| Indiana | 82 | #92 | #72 |
| Michigan | 101 | #92 | #69 |
| Virginia | 96 | #93 | #91 |
| North Carolina | 130 | #94 | #72 |
| New York | 180 | #97 | #86 |
| Tennessee | 89 | #98 | #60 |
| New Jersey | 98 | #101 | #102 |
| Pennsylvania | 123 | #101 | #72 |
| Mississippi | 29 | #102 | #40 |
| West Virginia | 19 | #104 | #63 |
| Montana | 12 | #104 | #40 |
| Delaware | 10 | #107 | #81 |
| District of Columbia | 8 | #111 | #107 |
| South Carolina | 47 | #112 | #79 |
| Florida | 195 | #113 | #72 |
| Arkansas | 30 | #117 | #39 |
| Rhode Island | 10 | #118 | #122 |
| Ohio | 114 | #120 | #66 |
| Oklahoma | 38 | #122 | #53 |
| Kansas | 32 | #122 | #46 |
| Alaska | 7 | #122 | #142 |
| Missouri | 55 | #132 | #45 |
| Illinois | 87 | #134 | #91 |
| Kentucky | 42 | #134 | #76 |
| Idaho | 20 | #135 | #38 |
| Texas | 291 | #136 | #78 |
| Minnesota | 48 | #137 | #67 |
| Nebraska | 19 | #140 | #68 |
| Nevada | 22 | #142 | #98 |
| Wisconsin | 44 | #143 | #75 |
| Maine | 9 | #144 | #78 |
| Arizona | 61 | #146 | #112 |
| Oregon | 28 | #147 | #65 |
| California | 258 | #151 | #149 |
| New Hampshire | 10 | #152 | #125 |
| Utah | 35 | #153 | #53 |
| Colorado | 46 | #155 | #70 |
| New Mexico | 12 | #169 | #70 |
| Massachusetts | 39 | #173 | #120 |
| Washington | 45 | #193 | #68 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #237 | #52 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,316 | 3,083 | #114 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,061 | 3,127 | #114 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,684 | 3,212 | #110 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,707 | 3,531 | #103 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,637 | 3,703 | #101 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,225 | 3,788 | #96 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,292 | 4,107 | #93 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,399 | 4,304 | #90 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,575 | 4,656 | #87 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,033 | 5,208 | #76 |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,179 | 5,357 | #75 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,678 | 6,301 | #68 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,494 | 6,401 | #66 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,165 | 4,724 | #85 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,949 | 3,740 | #106 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,692 | 2,678 | #146 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,138 | 2,345 | #167 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,907 | 2,195 | #180 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,662 | 2,035 | #198 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,723 | 2,144 | #187 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,009 | 1,796 | #208 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,431 | 1,488 | #229 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,460 | 1,329 | #249 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,681 | 1,070 | #282 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,252 | 976 | #300 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,858 | 938 | #310 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,928 | 788 | #336 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,175 | 667 | #379 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,716 | 568 | #406 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,787 | 468 | #465 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,717 | 376 | #523 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,251 | 326 | #568 |
| 1993 | — | — | 334 | #555 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,821 | 343 | #549 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,871 | 332 | #559 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,806 | 334 | #551 |
| 1989 | — | — | 264 | #604 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,631 | 228 | #628 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,148 | 217 | #617 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,996 | 210 | #618 |
| 1985 | — | — | 176 | #667 |
| 1984 | — | — | 140 | #738 |
| 1983 | — | — | 133 | #751 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,116 | 109 | #850 |
| 1981 | — | — | 81 | #1,011 |
| 1980 | — | — | 92 | #932 |
| 1979 | — | — | 146 | #715 |
| 1978 | — | — | 56 | #1,192 |
| 1977 | — | — | 58 | #1,148 |
| 1976 | — | — | 39 | #1,437 |
| 1975 | — | — | 34 | #1,544 |
| 1974 | — | — | 53 | #1,128 |
| 1973 | — | — | 26 | #1,752 |
| 1972 | — | — | 41 | #1,315 |
| 1971 | — | — | 24 | #1,839 |
| 1970 | — | — | 28 | #1,638 |
| 1969 | — | — | 32 | #1,424 |
| 1968 | — | — | 33 | #1,348 |
| 1967 | — | — | 26 | #1,523 |
| 1966 | — | — | 17 | #1,920 |
| 1965 | — | — | 15 | #2,125 |
| 1964 | — | — | 24 | #1,633 |
| 1963 | — | — | 22 | #1,719 |
| 1962 | — | — | 36 | #1,301 |
| 1961 | — | — | 42 | #1,227 |
| 1960 | — | — | 43 | #1,197 |
| 1959 | — | — | 52 | #1,075 |
| 1958 | — | — | 95 | #763 |
| 1957 | — | — | 64 | #949 |
| 1956 | — | — | 66 | #919 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,863 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,055 |
| 1952 | — | — | 9 | #2,773 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,927 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,655 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,563 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,795 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).