Jayce
Jayce was given to 2,199 boys in 2025, #167 among boys’ names; 47,162 Americans have been recorded with it since 1929 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 46,700 Americans named Jayce and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jayce by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jayce mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jayce is “a male given name.”
Non-standard spelling of Jase, Jace.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jayce?
#167 among boys’ names, 2025
Jayce fell from #132 in 2015 to #167 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 1.6 to 1.3 per 1,000.
3,191 babies in 2015, the peak
Jayce peaked in 2015, when 3,191 babies were given it (3,127 boys, #132 among boys’ names). The 2,230 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 70% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,199 | #167 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 2,184 | #169 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 2,179 | #166 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 2,429 | #154 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 2,421 | #158 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | 2,467 | #150 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 2,634 | #148 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 2,659 | #147 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 2,917 | #139 | 1.6 |
| 2016 | 2,972 | #138 | 1.6 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3,127 | #132 | 1.6 |
| 2014 | 2,718 | #150 | 1.4 |
| 2013 | 2,673 | #147 | 1.4 |
| 2012 | 1,919 | #200 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 1,604 | #223 | 0.84 |
| 2010 | 1,097 | #299 | 0.57 |
| 2009 | 873 | #355 | 0.44 |
| 2008 | 800 | #383 | 0.39 |
| 2007 | 712 | #409 | 0.34 |
| 2006 | 657 | #428 | 0.32 |
| 2005 | 560 | #458 | 0.28 |
| 2004 | 460 | #521 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 432 | #536 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 409 | #541 | 0.21 |
| 2001 | 308 | #617 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 321 | #604 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 209 | #763 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 165 | #880 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 132 | #982 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 141 | #927 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 101 | #1,136 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,256 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,382 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,197 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 68 | #1,367 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 49 | #1,669 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 55 | #1,498 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 44 | #1,623 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 85 | #1,034 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 171 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 39 | #1,627 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,393 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 15 | #2,988 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,278 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,306 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,693 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 15 | #2,952 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,324 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,821 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,635 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,102 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,425 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,685 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,049 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,737 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,807 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,468 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,452 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,821 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,213 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,246 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,319 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jayce a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 47,162 Americans recorded as Jayce, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 31 girls and 2,199 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jayce: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jayce, and how old are they?
46,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 47,162 Americans ever recorded as Jayce. The median Jayce alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 28,327 people named Jayce (1,494 women and girls, 26,833 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 33,396 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 48 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 102 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 34,000 |
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 Jayce born?
The states with the most babies named Jayce are Florida, Texas and California, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 228 | #97 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 196 | #198 | 0.9× |
| California | 182 | #205 | 0.6× |
| New York | 153 | #122 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 116 | #98 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 101 | #118 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 94 | #135 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 89 | #106 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 70 | #185 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 63 | #188 | 0.8× |
Where Jayce is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jayce is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1929 it was given 1.5 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 Jayce 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 271,805 babies since 1880, Jayce is the third most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,230 of their 6,028 babies (37%), the second 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 Jayce
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 Jayce and names like it
- Compare Jayce and JakeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJayce peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jayce since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Jayce.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jayce alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.