Ace

Locally spelled Аце in MK North Macedonia.

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

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Ace is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English49%

  Azo 1086 DB; Asce Halvecniht 1213 Cur (Ha); Benedict, John Ace 1230 Cl (Ha), 1246– 89 Bart (Lo); Geoffrey Aze 1296 SRSx. OFr Ace, Asse, OG Azo, Atso, hypocoristics of compounds in Adal-.

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

  A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  highest card

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

• Spanish20%

  ace (point scored without the opponent hitting the ball)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Hindi14%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Ace in Hindi.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ace, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Ventura
• Dax
• Dex
• Dash
• Blaze

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Ace is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name30 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Spain, Mexico

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Acé, Áce, Àçè, Áçé, Ãcê

• Indonesian given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, India, United States

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Áçé, Acé, Áce, Åcë

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Acė

• Thai given name12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, Philippines, United States, India

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written Access, Agencies, Áçé, แอคเซ, Acse

60 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.

Ace is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Indonesian, elder sister in Chinese communities

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Portuguese, ace (tennis: point scored without the opponent hitting the ball)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

• Michael DeLanob. 1940USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
• Ace Magashuleb. 1959ZASouth African politician
• Ace Atkinsb. 1970USAmerican writer

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).

55 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Is Ace a male or female name?

Ace is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Philippines (PSA, 2023) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).

What does the name Ace mean, and where does it come from?

Azo 1086 DB; Asce Halvecniht 1213 Cur (Ha); Benedict, John Ace 1230 Cl (Ha), 1246– 89 Bart (Lo); Geoffrey Aze 1296 SRSx. OFr Ace, Asse, OG Azo, Atso, hypocoristics of compounds in Adal-. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.

What are other forms of the name Ace?

In the etymology graph, Sasho is a form of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Ace?

In Spanish /ase/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people named Ace?

Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Ace in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ace. After it come Philippines, United States, South Africa and North Macedonia; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Ace?

In the United States, the national register counted 11,608 people named Ace in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.

How common is Ace compared with other names?

In North Macedonia, Ace is the 504th most common given name of 2,588 given names recorded there.