Pace

Pace is the 886th most common surname in the United States, shared by 38,580 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,747.

By the numbers

People: 38,580
Rank: 886th
How common: 1 in 7,747
Per 100,000: 12.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.6%
Black, not Hispanic 16.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Pace

Lee Pace (born 1979)American actor
Michela Pace (born 2001)Maltese singer
Carlos Pace (1944–1977)Brazilian racing driver
Peter Pace (born 1945)16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Darrell Pace (born 1956)American archer
Juan Pablo Di Pace (born 1979)Argentine actor, director, singer
Jackson Pace (born 1999)actor
Joseph Pace (born 1959)Italian painter, sculptor and philosopher

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

Surnames like Pace

Also a first name

Pace has been given to 981 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2024. 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.