Peace
Peace is given to both girls and boys: 35 girls and 31 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,146 among girls’ names and #3,637 among boys’, #4,663 among all names counting both); 1,109 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Peace and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Peace by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Peace mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Peace is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Peace?
#4,146 among girls’ names, 2025
Peace rose from #6,659 in 2015 to #4,146 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.6 to 21.8 per million.
94 babies in 2020, the peak
Peace peaked in 2020, when 94 babies were given it (56 girls, #2,926 among girls’ names). The 66 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 70% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,146 | 31 | #3,637 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,541 | 29 | #3,869 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,966 | 29 | #3,856 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,112 | 40 | #3,087 |
| 2021 | 47 | #3,377 | 41 | #3,010 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,926 | 38 | #3,061 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,260 | 32 | #3,546 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,324 | 15 | #5,968 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,297 | 8 | #9,468 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,610 | 21 | #4,732 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,659 | 7 | #10,339 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,995 | 8 | #9,391 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,194 | 6 | #11,786 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,251 | 9 | #8,687 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,096 | 5 | #13,800 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,072 | 12 | #6,982 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,605 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,014 | 5 | #14,081 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,653 | 9 | #8,724 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,773 | 6 | #11,680 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,732 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,137 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,241 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,169 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,069 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,320 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,887 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,167 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,215 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,923 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,100 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,309 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,466 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,667 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,278 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,417 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,188 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Peace a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,109 Americans recorded as Peace, 68% are girls and 32% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Peace: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Peace, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,109 Americans ever recorded as Peace. The median Peace alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,446 people named Peace (1,162 women and girls, 284 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 630 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 49 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 263 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 773 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Peace
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 Peace and names like it
- Compare Peace and BriarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sPeace peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Peace since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Peace.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Peace alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.