Jace is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The first name Jace is one of the top 100 most popular boys names in the US – currently at #79 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Jace, accounting for approximately 0.30 % of all newborn boys. In the entire USA, approximately 79,949 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jace. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The name Jace is a modern variant and diminutive of the name Jason, which is of Greek origin. Jason means ‘healer’ or ‘the Lord is salvation’. It is also a biblical name from the New Testament: Jason’s house in the Greek city Thessalonica was used as a refuge by the apostles Paul, Silas, and Timothy.
Jace Chan (*1994)
Chan is a singer and actress from Hong Kong. After graduating from University, she started to work as an author for a web magazine and interviewed artists. Simultaneously, Chan recorded her own songs. She first gained attention with her 2019 song Fabulous Four.
Jace Norman (*2000)
Making his first professional appearance in 2012, Norman is best known for portraying Henry Hart in the Nickelodeon television series Henry Danger (2014 2020). For this, he won the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award for Favorite Male TV Star four consecutive times.
Jace Amaro (*1992)
Amaro is a former American football player. He played as a tight end for the New York Jets, the Tennessee Titans, and the Kansas City Chiefs from 2014 to 2018, with two career receiving touchdowns. Amaro is also a standout track & field athlete.
Jace Peterson (*1990)
Peterson is a multitalented athlete, playing basketball, baseball, and football in school and the latter two in college. In 2011, he made his professional baseball debut in minor leagues. Since 2014, he plays in the MLB for different teams, the New York Yankees among others.
This is a real surprise! Jace is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off in the 21st century. In the year 2013, it reached its best rank at #66 according to our SmartGenius statistics. This makes Jace much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. While the name Jace was observed for the first time ever in 1936, it now seems to have found its place in the zeitgeist of the 21st century. In 2013, the year of its highest popularity, the name was given a total of 6,437 times. Whether this beautiful boys' name can repeat or even exceed its previous best ranking in the coming years remains to be seen, but the prospects are promising given the positive trend.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jace was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Jace ranked #103 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby boys a total of 3,537 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its popularity in the early years of this millennium, there is a good chance that Jace will not disappear from the screen anytime soon.
The name Jace may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Jace is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 601 men in Utah is called Jace. In total, that’s 2,264 people who feel addressed when the name Jace is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #155 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Jace as the answer a total of 79,949 times. This places Jace at #325 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Jace as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With four letters, the name Jace 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.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jace 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 Jace, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jace
Jace
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
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.
J
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. Jace sounds like this:
