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Jacalyn vs Jackie

American parents have registered 170,153 Jackies since 1880, against 5,185 Jacalyns. Jackie is still ahead, with 148 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jacalyn against Jackie, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jacalyn Jackie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jackie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1899 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Jacalyn had 45 and Jackie had 341.

Side by side

  Jacalyn Jackie
Total US births 5,185170,153
Most in one year 4825,573
Babies in 2025 under 5148
Estimated living today 4,400112,000
Median age today 6764
Peak year 19541961
Best rank 395th girls112th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,153rd
First recorded 19371899
Girls / boys 5,185 / 091,253 / 78,900

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jacalyns alive today are over 67; half the Jackies are over 64. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jacalyn and Jackie.