Jayce

What Jayce means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jayce yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #167 vs #822 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jayce?

US: Falling: down from #132 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #601 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2015, when 3,127 boys got the name (#132 that year). First in the US records in 1956.

How common

• About 1 in 777 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 6,973 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,928 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in RI (2.88 per 1,000 boys), HI (2.74 per 1,000 boys), AK (2.64 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jayce is #167 in the US and #822 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.6% of US babies named Jayce were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jace3,083 US · 126 E&W
• Jase375 US · 11 E&W
• Jayse29 US
• Jaice15 US
• Joyce7 US
• Jaece7 US
• Jaise6 US
• Jaze5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jayce

Boys

• Nolan#65“descendant of Nuallán”^*
• Karter#270Variant of Carter, meaning “son of Arthur”^*
• Easton#110“east + settlement”^*
• Grayson#51“steward”^*
• Declan#139Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #139 vs #372 in 2025
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*

For a sister

• Hadley#121“heath + woodland clearing”^*
• Adelaide#289“noble + nature, character”^*
• Arabella#213Editor’s note Steady in the US: #194 in 2015 and #213 in 2025
• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jayce’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.