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Peace

#4,146 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

English word name: peace

Peace has been given to 1,109 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #4,146 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 57 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% girls, 32% boys all-time.

Babies named Peace, 2025

1 in 94,700

Peace over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Peace over time

In 2025, Peace went to 53% girls and 47% boys.

19182025

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.

Peace: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: peace

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Peace means

Peace is documented as an English vocabulary word adopted as a personal name. Its immediate reference is the word peace; the cited entry discusses the word history separately from its use as a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Peace is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 758 girls were recorded with the name Peace between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,926 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,926 in 2020 to #4,146 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,659 in 2015 to #4,146 in 2025.

In the United States, 351 boys were recorded with the name Peace between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 2021; its best national rank was #3,010 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,061 in 2020 to #3,637 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,339 in 2015 to #3,637 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Peace?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 45,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,146
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Peace sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Peace. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Peaces were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Peace was born before 2017 — so the typical Peace is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
36.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
748
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (279).

Is Peace 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
+395
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,220
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,513
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.84×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.4%
Peak was 2023 (57)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,926
2020

Spellings of Peace

Peace is not the most common spelling — Grace is, with 74.8% against Peace's 0.11%.

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 Peace is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Peace was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 550,021 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Iowa1 in —
  4. 4Indiana1 in —
  5. 5Maryland1 in —
  6. 6North Carolina1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Peace has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Peace is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Peace was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,223,345 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Peace has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Peace around the world

Where Peace 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
    1998–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2012
    #907
    in 2012
  • France
    2008–2023
    #5,134
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2018–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Peace by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,146
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,220
Best rank ever
#2,926
2020
Peak year
2023
57 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
758
Count in 2025
35

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,637
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 576
Best rank ever
#3,010
2021
Peak year
2021
41 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
351
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Peace

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

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Sibling names for Peace

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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