Pace — #2597 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Pace

The Social Security Administration has registered 878 babies named Pace between 1917 and 2024, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Pace currently holds the #2597 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 51 babies received it in a single year. Pace is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 58 additional births since 2011.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pace performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 342 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Pace shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 65 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Pace in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pace 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 878 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.