Ace

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ace: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ace: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #191, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#191highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2012–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2012	#5876
2023	#5687

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #191 among boys in Scotland, #339 among boys in Northern Ireland, #352 among boys in England and Wales, #520 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2020 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Ace appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,380 births with the name.

Ace across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ace's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#288 (2021)	#352 (2024)	28 of 29	1,380 (1996–2024)	163 (2021)
England and Wales · Girls	#5876 (2012)	#5687 (2023)	#5687 (2023)	2 of 12	6 (2012–2023)	3 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#466 (2019)	#362 (2023)	#829 (2025)	6 of 7	39 (2019–2025)	10 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#285 (2022)	#285 (2022)	#339 (2024)	3 of 3	14 (2022–2024)	6 (2022)

Ace by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ace in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	21	4 of 10	5
2000s	134	9 of 10	15
2010s	530	10 of 10	53
2020sbusiest	695	5 of 10	139

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 139 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 42, from 121 to 163.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ace appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #191 in Scotland in 2024.

Ace's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#352	125	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#331	131	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#290	155	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#288	163	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#359	121	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#388	111	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#486	82	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#537	72	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#698	49	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#753	43	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#797	39	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#709	46	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#837	37	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1158	22	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#970	29	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1358	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1457	15	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1201	19	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#984	23	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#919	24	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#999	20	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1629	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1642	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#348	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#285	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#520	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#362	10	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#454	7	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#498	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#466	7	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#191	22	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #191, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 163 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Malachi · #191, 31y
Cali · #192, 30y
Junior · #189, 30y
Lacie · #189, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Rome · #191, 22y
Cali · #192, 30y
Corrie · #190, 15y
Eire · #192, 21y

Ace was ranked #191 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ace and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ace without appearing here.

Ace moved ahead of

Sander Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3036 and #3036 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #984 and #3385.
Nils Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2636 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #999 and #3009.
Robyn Compare
In 2003 they stood at #3036 and #3036 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #999 and #3009.
Anders Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2636 and #1519 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1629 and #2857.

Moved ahead of Ace

Arlo Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2425 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #3036 and #2142.
Hunter Compare
In 2006 they stood at #984 and #1643 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1201 and #926.
Bruce Compare
In 2024 they stood at #520 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2025 that had become #829 and #676.
Hudson Compare
In 2005 they stood at #919 and #982 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #984 and #885.

Moved the opposite way to Ace

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ace went from #2020 to #352 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ace went from #2020 to #352 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ace went from #2020 to #352 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ace went from #2020 to #352 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Ace

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ace went from #2020 to #352 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ace went from #2020 to #352 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ace went from #2020 to #352 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ace went from #2020 to #352 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #191 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ace

Ace at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ace across 4 official records

Ace by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ace appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Ace at a glance

Ace across 4 official records

Ace by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ace appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ace

Ace and the names beside it

Ace moved ahead of

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