Jayce is a modern variant of the name Jace and a diminutive form of the name Jason. Jayce is derived from the Greek name Iásōn and means ‘healer’.
Jayce is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Jayce isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jayce ranks 144. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 15 were named Jayce. In the entire USA, approximately 37,613 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jayce. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Jayce is a modern variant of the name Jace and a diminutive form of the name Jason. Jayce is derived from the Greek name Iásōn and means ‘healer’.
What is a diminutive? A diminutive is a root word that has been modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of an object, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment.
Jayce is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Jayce cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #131 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2015. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Jayce, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Jayce seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jayce was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
2,446 babies were named Jayce in 2022 - that's 1 in 66,898 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Jayce ranked 152 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Jayce occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Jayce is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Jayce is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 37,244 men and boys of all generations bear the name Jayce – that is one in 4,482. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Nevada, where one in 400 men and boys is called Jayce, while it is particularly rare in Wyoming, where you have to ask an average of 8,646 men for their name to get Jayce as an answer once.
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 five letters, the name Jayce is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 Jayce 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 Jayce, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Yoyo
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jayce
Jayce
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
A
Y
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
Y
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. Jayce sounds like this:
