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Jace vs Jacqueli

American parents have registered 92,412 Jaces since 1880, against 157 Jacquelis. Jace is still ahead, with 3,091 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jace Jacqueli

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 Jace had 264 and Jacqueli had 157.

Side by side

  Jace Jacqueli
Total US births 92,412157
Most in one year 6,446157
Babies in 2025 3,091under 5
Estimated living today 91,000150
Median age today 1136
Peak year 20131989
Best rank 66th boys1,076th girls
Rank in 2025 114thunranked
First recorded 19361989
Girls / boys 868 / 91,544157 / 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 Jacquelis alive today are over 36; half the Jaces are over 11. That is 25 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 Jacqueli.