Pace

surname · Latin script

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

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

/peɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pace is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 561as Faith(inferred from the name graph)
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2.5Kas Faith
  • USUnited States1 in 2.8Kas Faith

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pace itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Kenya (inferred from the name graph)

≈410,000 named Faith, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
512 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 130 (inferred from the name graph)

Kenya, est., as Faith

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

FaithLatin(measured from records)
ФейтCyrillic(measured from records)
페이스Hangul(measured from records)

Locally spelled Faith in US United States, NG Nigeria, PH Philippines and 3 more.

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.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

(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.

How Pace is read(measured from records)

Pace is one spelling over 2 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.

  • English79%

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

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

    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

    A step.

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

  • Spanish6.4%

    Del latín pax: ‘paz’. Nombre de mártir español.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pace counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Pace is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KE Kenya—≈410,000 est.≈1 in 130—Faith51
NG Nigeria#152≈380,000 est.≈1 in 561—Faith120
US United States#686119,725as Faith1 in 2.8K119KFaith512
ZA South Africa#455≈23,000 est.≈1 in 2.5K—Faith87
PH Philippines#503≈16,000 est.≈1 in 6.8K—Faith138
SG Singapore#395≈1,300 est.≈1 in 4.6K—Faith86

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Pacé

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Belgium

    Also written Pacé

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pacé

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Pàcè, Pacè, Pacé

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Pazieg

  • Russian surname41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Poland, Czechia

    Languages: Russian, Polish, 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(measured from records)

Pace 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 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Pace,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 42 sources across 23 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
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pace mean, and where does it come from?
(i) From a nickname for a mild, unaggressive person; (ii) from a shortened form of the Latin personal name Paschalis. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Pace have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 411 thousand people named Faith in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold.
How do you pronounce Pace?
A machine transcription gives /peɪs/ (IPA) for English.
What are other forms of the name Pace?
In the etymology graph, Pacifico is a form of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Pace?
In the United States, the national register counted 119,725 people named Faith in 2020, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
How common is Pace compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Pace is the 152nd most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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 152nd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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