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Jace vs Jacquez

American parents have registered 92,412 Jaces since 1880, against 1,725 Jacquezes. Jace is still ahead, with 3,091 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jace Jacquez

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 1998, when Jace had 694 and Jacquez had 168.

Side by side

  Jace Jacquez
Total US births 92,4121,725
Most in one year 6,446168
Babies in 2025 3,09111
Estimated living today 91,0001,700
Median age today 1125
Peak year 20131998
Best rank 66th boys863rd boys
Rank in 2025 114th7,194th
First recorded 19361984
Girls / boys 868 / 91,5440 / 1,725

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 Jacquezes alive today are over 25; half the Jaces are over 11. That is 14 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 Jacquez.