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Pace

#3,289 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Peace

Pace has been given to 981 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #3,289 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 52 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.

Babies named Pace, 2025

1 in 92,100

Pace over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Pace over time

In 2025, Pace went to 14% girls and 86% boys.

19172025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Pace: meaning, origin, and history

Peace

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pace means

Pace means “peace”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 917 boys were recorded with the name Pace between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 52 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,589 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,251 in 2020 to #3,289 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,846 in 2015 to #3,289 in 2025.

In the United States, 64 girls were recorded with the name Pace between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2022; its best national rank was #11,935 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,678 in 2020 to #14,490 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,929 in 2015 to #14,490 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Pace?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 47,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,289
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pace 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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pace. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Paces were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pace was born before 2014 — so the typical Pace is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
912
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Choose a decade

2010s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (342).

Is Pace 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
−700
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−38
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−443
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.2%
Peak was 2024 (52)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,589
2024

Spellings of Pace

Pace is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 38.2% against Pace's 0.03%.

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 Pace is used

Across 1910–2025, Pace was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 311,714 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —
  5. 5Utah1 in —

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. Pace has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pace around the world

Where Pace 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
    2022–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Pace by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,289
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 38
Best rank ever
#2,589
2024
Peak year
2024
52 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
917
Count in 2025
36

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,490
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 188
Best rank ever
#11,935
2023
Peak year
2022
8 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
64
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Pace

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

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Sibling names for Pace

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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