How Many People Are Named Jace?

91,244

people named Jace are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 3,745 people in the US has this name

Based on 92,412 babies named Jace in Social Security records from 1936 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#590

💎 Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#264

See the top 100

Peak Year

2013

6,446 births

Trend

↓

Declining (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: JAYS
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Short form of JASON.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Jace in English. Counting Jace and these spellings together, about 137,945 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.9%
Male
99.1%

Of the babies given the name Jace, 0.9% were girls and 99.1% were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Jace alive today is about 12 years old, and 95% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 16 in 2025.

Under 30 86,734
95.1%
30 to 59 4,140
4.5%
60 and over 370
0.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Jace first appears in the records in 1936 and was given most often in 2013, to 6,446 babies. In 2025, 3,091 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.

Babies given the name each year, 1936 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Jace never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #66, in 2013, and it was in the top 100 for 9 years, 2012 to 2020. In 2025 it ranked #114.

Boys
Rank in 2025#114
Best rank#66 (2013)
Years in the top 1009 (2012 to 2020)
Rank in its biggest decade#88 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Jace alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Jace were born in Texas than in any other state: about 9,041 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jace was given 2.7 times as often in North Dakota, 2.7 times in Wyoming and 2.6 times in South Dakota.

Texas 9,041
California 6,184
Florida 4,699
New York 3,725
Ohio 3,534
Georgia 3,291
Pennsylvania 3,205
Michigan 2,733
Louisiana 2,728
Illinois 2,710
North Carolina 2,555
Indiana 2,399
Missouri 2,381
Utah 2,346
Tennessee 2,204
Oklahoma 1,962
Washington 1,829
Arizona 1,822
Virginia 1,750
Minnesota 1,746
Wisconsin 1,632
Alabama 1,582
New Jersey 1,579
Colorado 1,544
Kansas 1,524
Iowa 1,503
Kentucky 1,445
Maryland 1,325
Arkansas 1,319
Mississippi 1,179
South Carolina 1,158
Oregon 1,042
Massachusetts 949
Idaho 909
Nebraska 870
Nevada 727
West Virginia 692
Connecticut 676
South Dakota 555
North Dakota 550
Montana 520
New Mexico 506
Hawaii 379
Maine 255
Wyoming 252
Alaska 236
Delaware 219
New Hampshire 212
Rhode Island 189
District of Columbia 142
Vermont 97

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