Dace is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Dace in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Dace in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Dace by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Dace ranks at #5,154. That means there are 5,153 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dace.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Dace. Boys named Dace have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,962 Dace ranked higher than ever in 1958. By comparison, there have been 96 years in which the first name Dace has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1995. In general, parents name their sons Dace only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dace was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Dace continues to be a precious jewel: 13 newborns were named Dace that year, ranking #5,559 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Dace, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Dace, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in Texas or Utah. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Dace living in one state or another. (If your name is Dace and you live outside of Texas and Utah, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 272,336 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Dace. So if your name is Dace, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Dace already makes you quite special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With four letters, the name Dace is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Dace and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dace, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Dace
Dace
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
A
C
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
A
C
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Dace sounds like this:
