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Jace vs Jacquetta

American parents have registered 92,412 Jaces since 1880, against 1,705 Jacquettas. Jace is still ahead, with 3,091 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jace Jacquetta

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 109 years in which either name was published, Jace for 62 years and Jacquetta for 47 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Jace Jacquetta
Total US births 92,4121,705
Most in one year 6,44655
Babies in 2025 3,091under 5
Estimated living today 91,0001,400
Median age today 1150
Peak year 20131988
Best rank 66th boys2,093rd girls
Rank in 2025 114thunranked
First recorded 19361916
Girls / boys 868 / 91,5441,705 / 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 Jacquettas alive today are over 50; half the Jaces are over 11. That is 39 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 Jacquetta.