Jayce
#4,460 for girls in 2025, 31 births · #167 for boys in 2025, 2,199 births
Given to boys 96.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 3,127 births
- Debut · boys
- 13 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 45,423since 1956
Jayce over time
Rank among boys' names. Jayce has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,460 | 31 | #167 | 2,199 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #168 | 2,184 |
| 2023 | #4,047 | 36 | #166 | 2,179 |
| 2022 | #4,295 | 33 | #154 | 2,429 |
| 2021 | #3,735 | 40 | #158 | 2,421 |
| 2020 | #3,778 | 38 | #150 | 2,467 |
| 2019 | #3,002 | 54 | #148 | 2,634 |
| 2018 | #2,782 | 61 | #147 | 2,659 |
| 2017 | #2,597 | 67 | #139 | 2,917 |
| 2016 | #2,168 | 89 | #138 | 2,972 |
| 2015 | #2,736 | 64 | #132 | 3,127 |
| 2014 | #2,560 | 69 | #150 | 2,718 |
| 2013 | #2,279 | 81 | #147 | 2,673 |
| 2012 | #2,568 | 70 | #200 | 1,919 |
| 2011 | #2,945 | 58 | #223 | 1,604 |
| 2010 | #3,816 | 40 | #298 | 1,097 |
| 2009 | #3,161 | 53 | #355 | 873 |
| 2008 | #2,855 | 62 | #383 | 800 |
| 2007 | #3,096 | 56 | #409 | 712 |
| 2006 | #2,887 | 60 | #428 | 657 |
| 2005 | #2,969 | 54 | #456 | 560 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 | #521 | 460 |
| 2003 | #2,800 | 55 | #536 | 432 |
| 2002 | #2,642 | 58 | #541 | 409 |
| 2001 | #3,091 | 45 | #617 | 308 |
| 2000 | #3,404 | 39 | #604 | 321 |
| 1999 | #2,854 | 47 | #763 | 209 |
| 1998 | #3,015 | 42 | #878 | 165 |
| 1997 | #3,224 | 36 | #981 | 132 |
| 1996 | #3,429 | 33 | #926 | 141 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 | #1,137 | 101 |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 | #1,254 | 86 |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 | #1,379 | 70 |
| 1992 | #4,236 | 24 | #1,197 | 87 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 | #1,368 | 68 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #1,662 | 49 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | #1,492 | 55 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #1,618 | 44 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #1,030 | 85 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #694 | 171 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #1,614 | 39 |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 | #2,364 | 21 |
| 1983 | — | #2,912 | 15 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #2,897 | 15 |
| 1978 | — | #4,157 | 8 | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | #3,318 | 10 |
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| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #4,724 | 5 |
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| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
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| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
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| 1958 | — | #2,177 | 14 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,263 | 13 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jayce! It came in at #2,263, and was given to 13 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1960, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Jayce
- 1 spot since 2024 (#168 → #167)
- 17 spots since 2020 (#150 → #167)
- 35 spots since 2015 (#132 → #167)
- Biggest jump: 920 spots in 1986 (#1,614 → #694)
- Biggest drop: 336 spots in 1987 (#694 → #1,030)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2015 at #132 (3,127 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1996–2025
- Highest: 1 in 613 boys born in 2015 were named Jayce (0.16%)
- Latest: 1 in 777 boys born in 2025 (0.13%)
- 53.5% of all boys named Jayce (24,320) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 32 | #2,177 (1958) | #2,811 |
| 1960s | 32 | #3,305 (1962) | #3,487 |
| 1970s | 66 | #2,897 (1979) | #4,060 |
| 1980s | 454 | #694 (1986) | #2,538 |
| 1990s | 1,108 | #763 (1999) | #1,155 |
| 2000s | 5,532 | #355 (2009) | #485 |
| 2010s | 24,320 | #132 (2015) | #172 |
| 2020s | 13,879 | #150 (2020) | #161 |
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.
Jayce in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 48,353 of them was named Jayce, which outranked 80.1% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,161Vivien37
- #3,161Zandra37
- #3,161Zenaida37
- #3,224Jayce36
- #3,224Abria36
- #3,224Aisling36
- #3,224Allexis36
- #3,302Adrienna35
- #3,302Alaura35
- #3,302Alejandrina35
Tied with 77 names at #3,224; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 14,281 of them was named Jayce, which outranked 90.9% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #976Waylon134
- #979Bryon133
- #979Kordell133
- #981Jayce132
- #981Cale132
- #981Donavon132
- #981Jajuan132
- #988Eliezer131
- #988Irving131
- #988Jaren131
Tied with 6 names at #981; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.