Pace
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
- Given to boys 93.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 52 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 917since 1917
Pace over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #3,240 | 36 |
| 2024 | — | #2,559 | 52 | |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #3,117 | 39 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #3,278 | 36 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #3,021 | 40 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #3,202 | 35 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #4,337 | 23 |
| 2018 | — | #3,106 | 37 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,951 | 40 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #3,161 | 36 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #2,809 | 42 |
| 2014 | — | #2,754 | 43 | |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #3,339 | 32 |
| 2012 | — | #3,807 | 27 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #3,164 | 35 |
| 2010 | — | #3,812 | 27 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,721 | 28 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,714 | 20 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,893 | 26 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,072 | 17 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,062 | 22 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,602 | 18 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,616 | 17 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,725 | 12 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,121 | 19 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,785 | 15 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,341 | 16 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,642 | 10 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,407 | 8 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,002 | 11 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,521 | 9 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
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| 1987 | — | #4,573 | 9 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
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| 1983 | — | #3,411 | 12 | |
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| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
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| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
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| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1917
The first year at least five boys were named Pace! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1960, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Pace is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Pace in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Pace
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 681 spots since 2024 (#2,559 → #3,240)
- 38 spots since 2020 (#3,202 → #3,240)
- 431 spots since 2015 (#2,809 → #3,240)
Rise & fade · boys
107 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 2024 at #2,559 (52 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 33,132
- Highest: 1 in 33,132 boys born in 2024 were named Pace (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 37.3% of all boys named Pace (342) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,981 (1917) | #3,981 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 6 | #3,652 (1961) | #3,652 |
| 1970s | 16 | #4,230 (1970) | #5,291 |
| 1980s | 27 | #3,411 (1983) | #4,637 |
| 1990s | 89 | #4,341 (1999) | #6,264 |
| 2000s | 194 | #3,721 (2009) | #4,531 |
| 2010s | 342 | #2,754 (2014) | #3,324 |
| 2020s | 238 | #2,559 (2024) | #3,070 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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