Acre
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- AY-ker
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #6,799 for boys
Acre is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “field”. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).
What does Acre mean?
English: English word, from Old English æcer
“field”
From Old English æcer 'field', later a measure of land, roughly what a yoke of oxen could plough in a day.
Is Acre a girl's or a boy's name?
Acre is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Acre in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,799among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 140,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 152% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Acre, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,447th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 32 boys. It first appears in the records in 2019.
It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer boys named Acre than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Acre in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Acre in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,430 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,880 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,531 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,027 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,447 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
Names like Acre
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Truce Ace Archer Kyaire Ares Sincere Chozen Suede Dutton Ledger Wylder Cove
Names related to Acre
More English names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Acre: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/acre, updated 20 October 2026.