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Jacarri vs Jace

American parents have registered 92,412 Jaces since 1880, against 513 Jacarris. Jace is still ahead, with 3,091 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jacarri against Jace, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jacarri Jace

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jace has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1936 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1989, when Jacarri had 6 and Jace had 264.

Side by side

  Jacarri Jace
Total US births 51392,412
Most in one year 316,446
Babies in 2025 253,091
Estimated living today 51091,000
Median age today 1411
Peak year 20222013
Best rank 3,617th boys66th boys
Rank in 2025 4,139th114th
First recorded 19891936
Girls / boys 0 / 513868 / 91,544

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jacarris alive today are over 14; half the Jaces are over 11. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jacarri and Jace.