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Jace vs Jacopo

American parents have registered 92,412 Jaces since 1880, against 11 Jacopos. Jace is still ahead, with 3,091 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jace against Jacopo, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jace Jacopo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jace has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1936 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Jace had 1,005 and Jacopo had 6.

Side by side

  Jace Jacopo
Total US births 92,41211
Most in one year 6,4466
Babies in 2025 3,091under 5
Estimated living today 91,00011
Median age today 1124
Peak year 20132001
Best rank 66th boys9,243rd boys
Rank in 2025 114thunranked
First recorded 19362001
Girls / boys 868 / 91,5440 / 11

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jacopos alive today are over 24; half the Jaces are over 11. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jace Jacopo
England and Wales 1,91851
Switzerland 62219
France 4525

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jace and Jacopo.