# Ace (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ace/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 26,483 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 26,319 / 164 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,503, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 16,793 |
| 2014 | 5 | 16,544 |
| 2015 | 7 | 13,024 |
| 2016 | 8 | 11,792 |
| 2017 | 10 | 9,951 |
| 2019 | 18 | 6,417 |
| 2020 | 14 | 7,560 |
| 2021 | 22 | 5,575 |
| 2022 | 25 | 5,173 |
| 2023 | 16 | 6,927 |
| 2024 | 23 | 5,446 |
| 2025 | 11 | 8,864 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 438 | 571 |
| 2012 | 501 | 523 |
| 2013 | 549 | 499 |
| 2014 | 824 | 380 |
| 2015 | 743 | 419 |
| 2016 | 1,042 | 334 |
| 2017 | 1,238 | 289 |
| 2018 | 1,448 | 255 |
| 2019 | 1,672 | 224 |
| 2020 | 1,912 | 199 |
| 2021 | 2,445 | 156 |
| 2022 | 2,492 | 152 |
| 2023 | 2,326 | 157 |
| 2024 | 2,210 | 165 |
| 2025 | 2,239 | 164 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5,687 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | 1,158 |
| 2012 | 37 | 837 |
| 2013 | 46 | 709 |
| 2014 | 39 | 797 |
| 2015 | 43 | 753 |
| 2016 | 49 | 698 |
| 2017 | 72 | 537 |
| 2018 | 82 | 486 |
| 2019 | 111 | 388 |
| 2020 | 121 | 359 |
| 2021 | 163 | 288 |
| 2022 | 155 | 290 |
| 2023 | 131 | 331 |
| 2024 | 125 | 352 |
| 2025 | 117 | 360 |

## People named Ace

- Ace Bailey, American basketball player (born 2006)
- Ace Austin, American professional wrestler
- Ace Young, American singer-songwriter
- Ace Atkins, American writer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.