Kace
Masculine
Kace is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 3,188 boys against 31 girls since 1880.
Kace is one clean syllable that rhymes with ace and face — a name you can say across a yard without raising your voice. It belongs to the American habit of trading a C for a K, the same instinct that turned Casey into Kacey and Cason into Kason, and it has taken hold most firmly in the South, in Texas, Georgia and Louisiana.
How old is the name Kace?
Kace first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Kace is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 3,200 people named Kace are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kace most popular?
Kace peaked in 2019, reaching #759 nationally. Today it ranks #1015, 256 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Kace
The sound came first, and the spelling followed. Case has been an English surname for centuries, and Casey an Irish one, and both were long established as given names in America before Kace appeared on the birth records in the late twentieth century. It arrived alongside a whole cohort of K-initial names — Kase, Kason, Kayden, Kacen — in which parents kept a familiar sound and swapped in the harder-looking letter. That makes Kace a genuinely recent name with a very old sound underneath it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Kace is a modern respelling, and respellings don't carry meanings of their own. What is documented sits one step behind it: the English surname Case comes from Anglo-Norman French for a box or chest, an occupational name for someone who made them, while the similar-sounding Irish surname Casey descends from Ó Cathasaigh, built on a word meaning vigilant. Neither can be pinned to this spelling with any honesty.
Pronouncing Kace
KAYSS
One syllable, rhyming with ace. The C is soft — say it like the word case, not like Kake. Because the K at the front sets up a hard sound, a few people will try KAY-see or KACK on first sight; one correction usually settles it.
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
- 1988
- Most boys named
- 2019312 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #759reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- −1.8%221 in 2025, from 225
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.
Kace in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Case in English — spelling variant
- Kase in English — spelling variant
- Casey in English — related form
- Kacey in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, Louisiana.
Kaces among us
people named Kace are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 7,729 born in 2025 was named Kace
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kace
- #1015
- Kace on the 2025 chart
- #381
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kace went to 221 boys in 2025, but Case, Kase and Khase and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 791, which makes it the 381st most-given boys’ name of the year — 634 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 2,159 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 7,729 for Kace 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 Laron test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kace's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Laron climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Laron's path sketches the road Kace is walking now.
Kace 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
Where Kace is headed
Kace should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kace beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kace in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable, four letters, no silent parts — easy for a small child to say and write early.
- The sound is already familiar in American ears through Case, Casey and Kason, so nobody has to learn it from scratch.
- A child named Kace will very likely be the only one in the class, without the name being unrecognizable.
- Works the same in every English-speaking country: no sound in it that shifts across accents.
- It will be written Case, Kase or Kacey by strangers for life. The K is the whole point of the spelling, and it's also the part people guess wrong.
- It's a homophone of the ordinary word case, which means occasional collisions with phrases like case closed or in any case. Mild, but it doesn't go away.
- K-respellings rose as a group and are stepping back as a group, so Kace carries a fairly clear signal of the years it became popular — much as Gary or Tracy do for earlier decades.
- Being the only one anywhere is lovely most days; on the days when an adult hesitates over how to say it, a friendly correction from the child does the work.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kaces are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,200 people named Kace are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kace?
- Kace is one of 5 recorded spellings. Case is the more common one — 359 births in 2025 against 221 for Kace.
- How popular is the name Kace in 2025?
- Kace ranks #1015 among US boy names in 2025, with 221 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kace?
- About 1 in every 7,729 US boys born in 2025 was named Kace — 221 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kace with classmates?
- Kace will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Kace
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