Ace
Ace was given to 2,239 boys in 2025, #164 among boys’ names; 26,483 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,400 Americans named Ace and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Ace came back: it left the boys’ top 1,000 after 1903 and returned in 2006.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ace by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ace mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ace is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ace?
#164 among boys’ names, 2025
Ace rose from #419 in 2015 to #164 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.39 to 1.3 per 1,000.
2,517 babies in 2022, the peak
Ace peaked in 2022, when 2,517 babies were given it (2,492 boys, #152 among boys’ names). The 2,250 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,239 | #164 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 2,210 | #165 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 2,326 | #157 | 1.4 |
| 2022 | 2,492 | #152 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 2,445 | #156 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | 1,912 | #199 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 1,672 | #224 | 0.93 |
| 2018 | 1,448 | #255 | 0.80 |
| 2017 | 1,238 | #289 | 0.67 |
| 2016 | 1,042 | #334 | 0.55 |
Every recorded year (132)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 743 | #419 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 824 | #380 | 0.43 |
| 2013 | 549 | #499 | 0.29 |
| 2012 | 501 | #523 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 438 | #571 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 402 | #616 | 0.21 |
| 2009 | 421 | #609 | 0.21 |
| 2008 | 322 | #719 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 279 | #781 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 242 | #841 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 137 | #1,161 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 117 | #1,278 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 61 | #1,904 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 48 | #2,191 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,023 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 54 | #1,920 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 40 | #2,260 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,709 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,161 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 46 | #1,929 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 33 | #2,342 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,254 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 41 | #1,964 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 42 | #1,909 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 35 | #2,089 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,368 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 32 | #2,148 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 48 | #1,520 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 44 | #1,585 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 35 | #1,758 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 32 | #1,833 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,884 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 35 | #1,650 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,206 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 28 | #1,941 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 30 | #1,852 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,464 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 40 | #1,474 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,555 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,053 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 22 | #2,064 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,275 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,604 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 21 | #1,966 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 28 | #1,668 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,293 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,860 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 21 | #1,730 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,351 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,813 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,177 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,204 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 25 | #1,584 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,304 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 20 | #1,811 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 17 | #1,973 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,641 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,714 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 18 | #1,885 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,901 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,762 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 22 | #1,629 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,855 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 24 | #1,518 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,018 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 20 | #1,666 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 19 | #1,702 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,362 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 18 | #1,691 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,535 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,524 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,832 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 17 | #1,730 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,532 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,471 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,636 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,819 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,372 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,062 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,708 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,498 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,498 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,777 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,294 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,198 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 17 | #1,902 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,796 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 16 | #1,981 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 18 | #1,869 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,777 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,020 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,545 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,648 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,694 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,445 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,814 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,548 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,453 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,772 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,091 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,223 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,386 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,193 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,277 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,021 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 11 | #697 | 0.09 |
| 1900 | 8 | #967 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,050 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 10 | #667 | 0.09 |
| 1892 | 8 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 7 | #765 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 8 | #722 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 11 | #609 | 0.09 |
| 1887 | 8 | #679 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 10 | #605 | 0.09 |
| 1884 | 5 | #972 | 0.04 |
| 1883 | 6 | #798 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 8 | #691 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ace a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ace has been given almost only to boys: 164 girls in 132 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ace: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ace, and how old are they?
25,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 26,483 Americans ever recorded as Ace. The median Ace alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 11,608 people named Ace (261 women and girls, 11,347 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,369 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 64 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 223 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 287 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 539 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 21,200 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ace born?
The states with the most babies named Ace are California, Texas and Florida, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 289 | #137 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 272 | #140 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 179 | #119 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 125 | #90 | 1.4× |
| New York | 88 | #224 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 72 | #178 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 72 | #162 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 66 | #193 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 63 | #205 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 59 | #165 | 0.9× |
Where Ace is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ace is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ace with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 30,969 babies since 1880, Ace is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,250 of their 2,342 babies (96%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ace
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ace and names like it
- Compare Ace and AcieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAce peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ace since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Ace.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ace alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.