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Jace vs Jacqulyn

American parents have registered 92,412 Jaces since 1880, against 3,958 Jacqulyns. Jace is still ahead, with 3,091 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jace Jacqulyn

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 103 years in which either name was published, Jace for 55 years and Jacqulyn for 48 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Jace Jacqulyn
Total US births 92,4123,958
Most in one year 6,44695
Babies in 2025 3,091under 5
Estimated living today 91,0003,100
Median age today 1151
Peak year 20131952
Best rank 66th boys966th girls
Rank in 2025 114thunranked
First recorded 19361923
Girls / boys 868 / 91,5443,958 / 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 Jacqulyns alive today are over 51; half the Jaces are over 11. That is 40 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 Jacqulyn.