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Jace vs Jhace

American parents have registered 92,412 Jaces since 1880, against 233 Jhaces. Jace is still ahead, with 3,091 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jace Jhace

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 2005, when Jace had 1,822 and Jhace had 13.

Side by side

  Jace Jhace
Total US births 92,412233
Most in one year 6,44621
Babies in 2025 3,0917
Estimated living today 91,000230
Median age today 118
Peak year 20132024
Best rank 66th boys4,701st boys
Rank in 2025 114th9,714th
First recorded 19362005
Girls / boys 868 / 91,5440 / 233

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 Jaces alive today are over 11; half the Jhaces are over 8. That is 3 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 Jhace.