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Jace vs Jackeline

American parents have registered 92,412 Jaces since 1880, against 6,534 Jackelines. Jace is still ahead, with 3,091 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jace Jackeline

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

Of the 78 years in which either name was published, Jace for 65 years and Jackeline for 13 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Jace Jackeline
Total US births 92,4126,534
Most in one year 6,446319
Babies in 2025 3,09130
Estimated living today 91,0006,400
Median age today 1123
Peak year 20132000
Best rank 66th boys729th girls
Rank in 2025 114th4,546th
First recorded 19361938
Girls / boys 868 / 91,5446,534 / 0

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 Jackelines alive today are over 23; half the Jaces are over 11. That is 12 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: Jace and Jackeline.