Mace

At the 2020 census, 11,737 Americans bore the surname Mace — 2,998th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 25,500.

By the numbers

People: 11,737
Rank: 2,998th
How common: 1 in 25,500
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from the personal name Masse, probably shortened from Matthew. Compare Massey, Massett.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mace described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Black, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Mace

Nancy Mace (born 1977)American politician
Georgina M. Mace (1953–2020)British ecologist
Fred Mace (1878–1917)actor
Mace (born 1991)Professional wrestler and American football player

People named Mace with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mace

Also a first name

Mace has been given to 1,977 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2016. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.