Jace
Feminine · “Greek iasthai”
Jace is given to boys far more often — 91,544 boys against 868 girls since 1880. See Jace as a boy name
Jason's name comes from the word for healing, and the myth agrees: he was raised by Chiron, the centaur who taught medicine, and the Greek root behind his name gives us psychiatry and paediatrics.
How old is the name Jace?
Jace first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Jace alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 900 people named Jace are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jace most popular?
Jace peaked in 2013, reaching #3465 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 7,452 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
Where it comes from
From Iason to Jace
The story of Jace
In the myth Jason is given as an infant to Chiron, the centaur who taught Achilles and Asclepius and who was famous as a healer, and his name belongs to the same vocabulary. The Greek iatros, a doctor, gives psychiatry, podiatry, paediatrics and geriatrics, so the root is still working in English. The name also appears in the New Testament, borne by a host in Thessalonica, which is how it entered Christian use; some Hellenised Jews took it as a Greek equivalent of Joshua. Jace is a modern American clipping of the whole thing, made in the 1990s and 2000s, and, like most short forms of that period, it is registered as a full legal name with nothing behind it.
Meaning
Greek iasthai, to heal
Jason is from Greek Iason, generally derived from iasthai, to heal, the root behind iatros, a physician, and the English ending -iatry. Jace is a modern clipped form; its female peak is 2013.
How the name formed
- Iason
- Jason
- Jace
Related forms: Jayce · Iason
Pronouncing Jace
JAYSS
One syllable. Jace and Jayce are homophones; the name is used far more often for boys.
Nicknames for Jace
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1982
- Most girls named
- 201345 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3465reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- −50.0%8 in 2025, from 16
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jace in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jayce in English — spelling variant
- Iason in Greek — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Jaces among us
people named Jace are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Jace
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jace
- #10917
- Jace on the 2025 chart
- #937
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jace went to 8 girls in 2025, but Jacee and Jase are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 23, which makes it the 937th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,980 places above the chart.
- Jacee10
- Jace8
- Jase5
About 1 girl in 69,881 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 200,908 for Jace itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Angelisa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jace's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Angelisa climbed just as high around 1969, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Angelisa's path sketches the road Jace is walking now.
Jace sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jace beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jace in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable and four letters.
- Jason is available as the formal version.
- Jay works as a short form for either sex.
- The name is overwhelmingly male in American use.
- It is a clipped form with no long name attached.
- The 2013 female peak is small.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jaces are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Jace are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jace?
- Jace is one of 3 recorded spellings. Jacee is the more common one — 10 births in 2025 against 8 for Jace.
- How popular is the name Jace in 2025?
- Jace ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jace?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Jace — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jace with classmates?
- Jace will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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