girls:
130 births since 2011
#5586 (2nd percentile)
boys:
21.8k births since 1882
#775 (83rd percentile)
overall:
22k births since 1882
#1720 (78th percentile)
The name Ace is the #1,720 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,973 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 77.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #775 (83.1% percentile) for all time with 21,843 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,586 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 130 births since 2011.
Ace first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 2011 for girls). Birth data for Ace is available in 130 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (130 years for boys and 10 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ace has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ace reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 84.2% percentile (ranked #147) with 1,329 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 1,329 births per million (ranked 84.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1998, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ace is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #154 (83.2% percentile) with 1,264 births per million.
For girls, Ace reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #938) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ace ranks #936 for girls (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 65.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ace".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Ace is pronounced as ays, which has 1 syllables.
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