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Jayce: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,199 in 2025. Its best rank was #132 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #132 in 2015; #167 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Jayce in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#167 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #132.
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Jayce: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,199 boys in 2025. Peak: #132 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 3,127 (2015).
In 2025, 2,199 US boys were named Jayce, making it the 167th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2 places from #169 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 2,184 boys named Jayce in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #132, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,127. For comparison, it was #132 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jayce in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1929 with 8 babies. In all, 47,162 US babies have been given the name, 3.7% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 24,973 babies named Jayce.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 25,061 US boys were named Jayce; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,972. In 2025 that was about 1 in 777 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jayce ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #96 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 3 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Jace (92,412 babies since 1880), Jack (759,677 babies since 1880) and Jake (129,539 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Jayce 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 5 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 53 | #96 | #94 |
| Florida | 228 | #97 | #123 |
| Georgia | 116 | #98 | #97 |
| Maryland | 53 | #106 | #173 |
| Michigan | 89 | #106 | #87 |
| Louisiana | 46 | #113 | #94 |
| North Carolina | 101 | #118 | #123 |
| Mississippi | 27 | #120 | #68 |
| New York | 153 | #122 | #112 |
| Alabama | 43 | #127 | #111 |
| Hawaii | 8 | #131 | #129 |
| Rhode Island | 9 | #132 | #112 |
| Pennsylvania | 94 | #135 | #111 |
| New Hampshire | 11 | #137 | #107 |
| Virginia | 62 | #146 | #134 |
| Delaware | 7 | #154 | #143 |
| Tennessee | 63 | #154 | #111 |
| Alaska | 6 | #154 | — |
| North Dakota | 8 | #163 | #139 |
| New Mexico | 12 | #170 | #120 |
| Connecticut | 21 | #170 | #89 |
| New Jersey | 60 | #170 | #111 |
| West Virginia | 11 | #173 | #89 |
| Massachusetts | 39 | #174 | #115 |
| Ohio | 70 | #185 | #95 |
| Indiana | 46 | #187 | #113 |
| Illinois | 63 | #188 | #166 |
| Maine | 7 | #189 | #140 |
| Missouri | 37 | #197 | #108 |
| Texas | 196 | #198 | #164 |
| California | 182 | #205 | #248 |
| Nevada | 15 | #207 | #163 |
| Oregon | 20 | #212 | #160 |
| Arkansas | 17 | #212 | #96 |
| Kansas | 18 | #225 | #170 |
| Kentucky | 24 | #230 | #120 |
| Minnesota | 27 | #235 | #145 |
| Wisconsin | 23 | #258 | #132 |
| Washington | 29 | #264 | #156 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #278 | #130 |
| Arizona | 28 | #283 | #191 |
| Idaho | 9 | #288 | #185 |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #319 | #192 |
| Colorado | 19 | #335 | #210 |
| Iowa | 9 | #382 | #169 |
| Utah | 8 | #536 | #282 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,493 | 2,199 | #167 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,070 | 2,184 | #169 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,080 | 2,179 | #166 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,324 | 2,429 | #154 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,768 | 2,421 | #158 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,807 | 2,467 | #150 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,020 | 2,634 | #148 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,795 | 2,659 | #147 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,620 | 2,917 | #139 |
| 2016 | 89 | #2,179 | 2,972 | #138 |
| 2015 | 64 | #2,757 | 3,127 | #132 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,568 | 2,718 | #150 |
| 2013 | 81 | #2,291 | 2,673 | #147 |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,577 | 1,919 | #200 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,965 | 1,604 | #223 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,851 | 1,097 | #299 |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,176 | 873 | #355 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,869 | 800 | #383 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,107 | 712 | #409 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,901 | 657 | #428 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,982 | 560 | #458 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,355 | 460 | #521 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,816 | 432 | #536 |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,653 | 409 | #541 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,113 | 308 | #617 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,422 | 321 | #604 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,873 | 209 | #765 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,034 | 165 | #881 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,256 | 132 | #984 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,461 | 141 | #929 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,268 | 101 | #1,140 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,595 | 86 | #1,260 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,515 | 70 | #1,387 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,293 | 87 | #1,201 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,770 | 68 | #1,373 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,657 | 49 | #1,674 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,173 | 55 | #1,503 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,904 | 44 | #1,628 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,041 | 85 | #1,035 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,641 | 171 | #695 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,793 | 39 | #1,628 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,050 | 21 | #2,394 |
| 1983 | — | — | 15 | #2,989 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,280 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,308 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,500 | 8 | #4,695 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,826 | 15 | #2,953 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,326 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,883 | 7 | #4,823 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,637 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,104 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,939 | 10 | #3,427 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,687 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,502 | 5 | #5,051 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,738 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,808 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,469 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,453 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,822 |
| 1958 | — | — | 14 | #2,214 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,247 |
| 1956 | — | — | 13 | #2,320 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,778 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,279 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,527 | — | — |
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).