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Jace vs Jackjohn

American parents have registered 92,412 Jaces since 1880, against 20 Jackjohns. Jace is still ahead, with 3,091 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jace Jackjohn

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 80 years in which either name was published, Jace for 77 years and Jackjohn for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jace Jackjohn
Total US births 92,41220
Most in one year 6,4468
Babies in 2025 3,091under 5
Estimated living today 91,0000
Median age today 1195
Peak year 20131926
Best rank 66th boys3,139th boys
Rank in 2025 114thunranked
First recorded 19361925
Girls / boys 868 / 91,5440 / 20

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 Jackjohns alive today are over 95; half the Jaces are over 11. That is 84 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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