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Mace

#2,503 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly gift of YHWH (the Lord), through Matthew

Mace has been given to 1,977 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,503 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Mace, 2025

1 in 61,400

Mace over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mace: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly gift of YHWH (the Lord), through Matthew

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mace means

Mace belongs to the name family reached through Mace → Matthew → Matthaeus. Its meaning is “gift of YHWH (the Lord)”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* As an English surname, from the personal name Masse, probably shortened from Matthew.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Mace (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Mace is used in English.

Mace comes through Late Latin Macciacum.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matthew and Matthaeus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Mace is pronounced /meɪs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,977 boys were recorded with the name Mace between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 2016; its best national rank was #775 in 1902.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,406 in 2020 to #2,503 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,448 in 2015 to #2,503 in 2025.

How common is Mace?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 61,400
54 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 31,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,503
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
42,555 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mace sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mace. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maces were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mace was born before 2006 — so the typical Mace is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,671
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Choose a decade

2010s — 26.9% of all recorded uses (532).

Is Mace rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+356
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−97
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−55
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.04×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.1%
Peak was 2016 (65)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#775
1902

Spellings of Mace

Mace is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 31.1% against Mace's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mace is used

Across 2016–2025, Mace was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 69,196 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 33,333
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3Missouri1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Mace around the world

Where Mace ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1966–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mace by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,503
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 97
Best rank ever
#775
1902
Peak year
2016
65 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,977
Count in 2025
54

Names similar to Mace

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mace

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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