Mace
Mace is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 45 births. Its best rank was 776th, in 1902.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 450.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201665 births
- Best rank
- #776in 1902
- Since 1880
- 1,923people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,923 boys have been named Mace in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 65 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2010s alone account for 28%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Mace | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | |
| 1900s | 27 | |
| 1910s | 72 | |
| 1920s | 80 | |
| 1930s | 48 | |
| 1940s | 69 | |
| 1950s | 122 | |
| 1960s | 204 | |
| 1970s | 107 | |
| 1980s | 43 | |
| 1990s | 90 | |
| 2000s | 245 | |
| 2010s | 532 | |
| 2020s | 274 |
In 2016, its biggest year
Mace was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2016 were Noah, Liam, William, Mason and James. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Mace
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hansonpeak 2018
- Graypeak 2023
- Emersonpeak 2019
- Elampeak 2015
- Lawsonpeak 2021
- Princepeak 2019
- Dutchpeak 2012
- Edisonpeak 2018
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.