Meaning and history
Ace comes from the English word for the highest-ranking playing card and, by extension, a person who excels at something. Long used as a nickname, it has increasingly been adopted as a given name in modern English. Well-known stage-name bearers include guitarist Ace Frehley and rapper Ace Hood.
20062006: 242 births, rank #841
2007: 279 births, rank #781
2008: 322 births, rank #719
2009: 421 births, rank #609
2010: 402 births, rank #616
20112011: 438 births, rank #571
2012: 501 births, rank #523
2013: 549 births, rank #499
2014: 824 births, rank #380
2015: 743 births, rank #419
20162016: 1,042 births, rank #334
2017: 1,238 births, rank #289
2018: 1,448 births, rank #255
2019: 1,672 births, rank #224
2020: 1,912 births, rank #199
20212021: 2,445 births, rank #156
2022: 2,492 births, rank #152
2023: 2,326 births, rank #157
2024: 2,210 births, rank #165
20252025: 2,239 births, rank #164
Ace rose from #165 to #164 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2022, with 2,492 births.