Peace — #4470 US unisex name
723 babies named Peace in U.S. Social Security records since 1918, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 75% of names given to girls today.
35% of everyone ever named Peace was born in this single decade.
57 babies were named Peace in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Peace
The Social Security Administration has registered 723 babies named Peace between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Peace currently holds the #4470 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 57 babies received it in a single year. Peace is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 319 additional births since 2006.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Peace performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 255 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Peace shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 49 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Peace in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Peace 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 723 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.
Peace at a glance
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Current rank
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Peace popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1918
- Peak year (2023)
- 57
- Annual births at peak — across 107 years of records
Currently ranks #4470 among girls.
723 total births across 107 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 57 births in a single year.
Peace popularity over time — boys
319 total births recorded since 2006 (Peace as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Peace accounts for 31% of total recorded use across both genders.
Peace by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 255 births that decade — 35% of Peace's all-time total
Peace decade highlights
- Peak decade 255 births
- Runner-up 244 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Peace's strongest decade
255 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% of all-time use.
Peace by state
Where Peace concentrates geographically — total births since 1918
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 49 | 6.8% |
| #2 | Georgia | | 20 | 2.8% |
| #3 | California | | 11 | 1.5% |
| #4 | Iowa | | 6 | 0.8% |
| #5 | Indiana | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #6 | Maryland | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #7 | North Carolina | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #8 | New York | | 5 | 0.7% |
49 of 723 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 6.8% of nationwide
- Georgia 2.8% of nationwide
- California 1.5% of nationwide
- Iowa 0.8% of nationwide
- Indiana 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 6.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1918–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.