Given name & surname
Dace
“born to the nobility”
Dace is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “born to the nobility.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “born to the nobility.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1953. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dace through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 542
- 524 boys · 18 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 16
- #5,657 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +12%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 16 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,657 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 11.9% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 23 in 2011. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 671 as a first name in 2020; 854 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dace’s family of names
Dace has a related form in Dacian. Dace has a related form in Daceas. Dace has a related form in Dacias.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Dacianvariant
- Daciovariant
- Dacienvariant
- Daycevariant
- Daceasvariant
- Daciasvariant
- Daciosvariant
- Daciusvariant
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Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dace
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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