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I hate the name Ace, Asa or similar and don't even have a good reason to i just dont.

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Spike would be what a cool dad nicknames his kid and I love it, I wouldn't go as a full name tho maybe as a nn for Spencer, Spiro or Mike as many others have said.

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Thorn is alright but just doesn't sound or look that good imo

11 year old me would be all for this. I was super into "Dusk" which I believe falls into the category.

I actually like the name Thorn. I had an algae eater named Spike! And Ace just reminds me of a fighter pilot!

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So out of the three I like Thorn/Thorne the best.

I'm familiar with Spike as a rhyming nickname (with Mike) for Michael; I don't currently know one but I might have once.

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Thorn is awful, but in Afrikaans the word for a thorn is used as a term of praise: Jou doring! Like: You're a star! In theory it could be used as a nn, but I've never heard it like that.

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Ace ... also in Afrikaans, and Dutch, there is a surname - Uys - which sounds so close to Ace that English-speaking people can cope with it. And a very prominent playwright, satirical comedian, drag act, named Pieter-Dirk Uys went to the UK as a young man (60s probably) and found that he pretty much had to introduce himself as Ace rather than spend time trying to teach people to do something they really weren't going to get right anyway. When he came home, he dropped it. And that's my only association.

I don’t like any of them and I’ve never known anyone with them.
My opinions:
Ace: nickname for a rock singer in a retro rock band.
Spike: nickname of a young street thug or a name for a large dog.
Thorn: name of a character in a western theme romance novel.

all terrible

There's a radio DJ in my city named Ace.... I don't know if that's his real name.

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I don't know anyone named Spike or Thorn.

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They all seem like names from really trashy romance novels, which does give them some charm, because I like names with that kind of energy.