Peace
Just 18 people in Poland carry it, so almost no one has met one. The name means peace and tranquility, and Poles say it pe-AH-tse.
Peace Pronunciation
Peace is pronounced pe-AH-tse (/pɛˈat͡sɛ/).
What Peace means
Where Peace comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Peace is an English word before it is a name. It means calm, the settling after a quarrel. Behind the same idea sits the Slavic root mir, which holds both peace and world, and which surfaces in old names like Mirosław and Mira. The short meaning stays on that ground: pokój, spokój, tranquility.
The name travels well. In Nigeria, Peace has long been a common given name for girls, standing beside Blessing and Precious among the virtue names. A child called Peace on an English form and a child named from mir on a Polish one reach for one small thing.
Picture the name read from a school register. The teacher pauses, then says it plainly. The meaning never strays. Whatever the tongue, it comes back to pokój, spokój.
How many people are named Peace
1 in 1408990 women in Poland is named Peace. 18 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10786 among female names.
Peace as a middle name
Peace is a first name for 18 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4342nd, between Pari (4) and Pelin (4).
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#4340 Paramita4
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#4341 Pari4
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#4342 Peace4
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#4343 Pelin4
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#4344 Pema4