Mace — #2831 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mace

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,923 babies named Mace between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mace currently holds the #2831 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 65 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mace performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 532 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Mace shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 67 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Mace in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mace in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,923 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.