Pace

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Pace is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: (i) From a nickname for a mild, unaggressive person; (ii) from a shortened form of the Latin personal name Paschalis.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria1 in 2K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 2.8K
  • PHPhilippines1 in 3.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈120K ●

across 6 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
458 ●

1.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.8K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

FaithLatin · English●576K records
ФейтCyrillic · Russian●334 records
파이트Hangul · Korean●0 records

Locally spelled Faith in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 20 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

(i) From a nickname for a mild, unaggressive person; (ii) from a shortened form of the Latin personal name Paschalis.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Pace is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#688119,371798K rec.1 in 2.8K119KFaith458
PH Philippines#48547,67125K rec.——Faith124
GB United Kingdom#63843,81641K rec.—19Faith166
NG Nigeria#18536,66155K rec.——Faith116
AU Australia#74924,54524K rec.—51Faith157
CA Canada#60721,94215K rec.—8Faith145
ZA South Africa#3929,11810K rec.—1.8KFaith82
IT Italy—6,9417.1K rec.—6Pace99
DE Germany—3,8443.9K rec.—1Pace93
FR France—3,7073.5K rec.—284Faith120
SG Singapore#3042,5782.8K rec.——Faith80
BE Belgium—1,7351K rec.—463Pace32

Roughly 119K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.8K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English373K76%
  • Spanish36K7%
  • French14K3%
  • 11K2%
  • Italian10K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English373,28676%
Spanish36,2817%
French13,7103%
10,9102%
Italian10,0482%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Pace is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname49K records spelled Pace3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Pacé

  • French surname15K records spelled Pace3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Pacé

  • a separate surname13K records spelled Pace2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Canada

    Also written Pacé

  • Italian surname11K records spelled Pace4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Also written Pacè, Pàcè, Pacé

  • Welsh surname2.4K records spelled Pace3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, Ireland

    Also written Pazieg

  • Polish surname2.0K records spelled Pace49 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Russia, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Пейс, Paquet, Peis, Паче, Paice

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Pace is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, from ME pais/pes(e), OFr pais, Lat pax ‘peace, concord, amity’; first attested John Pais 1219 FrLeic

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, A step.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, Del latín pax: ‘paz’. Nombre de mártir español.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In Italian, Dal lat. pax, pacis ‘pace’. Può anche essere riduzione di Acquistapace o Buonapace.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In Italian, dal latino pax, 'pace, serenità'.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020406019201940196019802000202052 · 2024

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Pace in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1917–2025
Yearrecords
19175
19616
19706
19765
19795
198312
19866
19879
19909
19919
19928
199311
19946
19958
19966
199710
19986
199916
200015
200119
200212
200317
200418
200522
200617
200726
200820
200928
201027
201135
201227
201332
201443
201542
201636
201740
201837
201923
202035
202140
202236
202339
202452
202536

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 44 years between 1917–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

14001600180020002200Richardus Paceus, b. 1482Frank Pace, b. 1912George Pace, b. 1915Judy Pace, b. 1942Carlos Pace, b. 1944Peter Pace, b. 1945Enrico Pace, b. 1967Lee Pace, b. 1979Jackson Pace, b. 1999Michela Pace, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 40 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Pace
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201040K#868
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200039K#807
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202039K#886
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—2.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.7K#5,621
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020757#13,851
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—463#3,361
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008402#3,899
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961370—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024361#3,651
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981337—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971300—

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 106 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Pace?
We estimate roughly 120 thousand people bear Pace (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Pace have the most bearers?
We estimate about 119 thousand people bear Pace in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled faith.
How common is Pace compared with other names?
In the United States, Pace is the 688th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
What does the name Pace mean?
Recorded meaning: (i) From a nickname for a mild, unaggressive person; (ii) from a shortened form of the Latin personal name Paschalis.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pace” — the 688th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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