Jace
Jace was given to 3,083 boys in 2025, #114 among boys’ names; 92,412 Americans have been recorded with it since 1936 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 91,200 Americans named Jace and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jace by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jace mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jace is “a twentieth century diminutive of the male given name Jason.”
Shortening of Jason.
/d͡ʒeɪs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jace?
#114 among boys’ names, 2025
Jace fell from #75 in 2015 to #114 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 2.8 to 1.8 per 1,000.
6,446 babies in 2013, the peak
Jace peaked in 2013, when 6,446 babies were given it (6,401 boys, #66 among boys’ names). The 3,091 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,083 | #114 | 1.8 |
| 2024 | 3,127 | #114 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 3,212 | #110 | 1.9 |
| 2022 | 3,531 | #103 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 3,703 | #101 | 2.1 |
| 2020 | 3,788 | #96 | 2.2 |
| 2019 | 4,107 | #93 | 2.3 |
| 2018 | 4,304 | #90 | 2.4 |
| 2017 | 4,656 | #87 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 5,208 | #76 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5,357 | #75 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6,301 | #68 | 3.3 |
| 2013 | 6,401 | #66 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 4,724 | #85 | 2.5 |
| 2011 | 3,740 | #106 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 2,678 | #146 | 1.4 |
| 2009 | 2,345 | #167 | 1.2 |
| 2008 | 2,195 | #180 | 1.1 |
| 2007 | 2,035 | #198 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 2,144 | #187 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 1,796 | #208 | 0.90 |
| 2004 | 1,488 | #229 | 0.75 |
| 2003 | 1,329 | #249 | 0.67 |
| 2002 | 1,070 | #282 | 0.55 |
| 2001 | 976 | #300 | 0.50 |
| 2000 | 938 | #310 | 0.48 |
| 1999 | 788 | #336 | 0.41 |
| 1998 | 667 | #379 | 0.35 |
| 1997 | 568 | #406 | 0.30 |
| 1996 | 468 | #465 | 0.25 |
| 1995 | 376 | #523 | 0.20 |
| 1994 | 326 | #567 | 0.17 |
| 1993 | 334 | #555 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 343 | #549 | 0.17 |
| 1991 | 332 | #559 | 0.16 |
| 1990 | 334 | #550 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 264 | #602 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 228 | #628 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 217 | #617 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 210 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 176 | #667 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 140 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 133 | #751 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 109 | #850 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 81 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 92 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 146 | #715 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 56 | #1,192 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 58 | #1,148 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 39 | #1,437 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 34 | #1,543 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,128 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,752 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 41 | #1,315 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,838 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 28 | #1,637 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 32 | #1,424 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 33 | #1,348 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 26 | #1,522 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,919 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,124 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 24 | #1,632 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,718 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,300 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 42 | #1,226 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,196 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 52 | #1,074 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 95 | #762 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 64 | #948 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 66 | #918 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,862 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,054 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,771 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,925 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,653 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,563 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,794 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jace a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jace has been given almost only to boys: 868 girls in 77 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jace: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jace, and how old are they?
91,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 92,412 Americans ever recorded as Jace. The median Jace alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 64,943 people named Jace (888 women and girls, 64,055 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 71,952 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 345 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 647 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,960 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 29,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 56,700 |
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 Jace born?
The states with the most babies named Jace are Texas, California and Florida, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 291 | #136 | 0.9× |
| California | 258 | #151 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 195 | #113 | 0.9× |
| New York | 180 | #97 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 130 | #87 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 130 | #94 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 123 | #101 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 114 | #120 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 101 | #92 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 98 | #101 | 0.6× |
Where Jace is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jace is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1936 it was given 1.9 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 Jace 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 303,360 babies since 1880, Jace is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 3,091 of their 6,409 babies (48%), the most given that year.
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 Jace
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 Jace and names like it
- Compare Jace and JakeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJace peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jace since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Jace.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jace alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.