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Stace

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Well based, standing firm, stable (relatively unchanging), through Stacey

Stace has been given to 217 babies in the U.S. since 1960. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1968, with 23 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% boys, 15% girls all-time.

Babies named Stace, 1984

1 in 698,000

Stace over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 1984, Stace went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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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.

Stace: meaning, origin, and history

Well based, standing firm, stable (relatively unchanging), through Stacey

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Stace means

Stace belongs to the name family reached through Stace → Stacey → Eustace → εὐσταθής. Its meaning is “well based, standing firm, stable (relatively unchanging)”.

Origin, language, and formation

Stace is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Stacey, Eustace and εὐσταθής.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Stace is pronounced /steɪs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 184 boys were recorded with the name Stace between 1960 and 1984. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1968; its best national rank was #1,688 in 1968.

In the United States, 33 girls were recorded with the name Stace between 1967 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1970; its best national rank was #5,358 in 1970.

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.

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How common is Stace?

Stace had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1984
1 in 698,000
5 of 3,488,451 births
Among boys only
1 in 361,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1984
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
483,603 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Stace 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 1984 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 483,603 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Stace. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Staces were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Stace was born before 1968 — so the typical Stace is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
63.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
184
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 63.0% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Stace 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1968 (23)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,688
1968

Spellings of Stace

Stace is not the most common spelling — Steve is, with 35.0% against Stace'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 Stace is used

Across 1910–2025, Stace was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Stace has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Stace by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,688
1968
Peak year
1968
23 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
184
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,358
1970
Peak year
1970
10 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
33
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Stace

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

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Sibling names for Stace

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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