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Jacarri vs Jackson

American parents have registered 297,998 Jacksons since 1880, against 513 Jacarris. Jackson is still ahead, with 6,597 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jacarri against Jackson, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jacarri Jackson

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

Jackson has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1989, when Jacarri had 6 and Jackson had 502.

Side by side

  Jacarri Jackson
Total US births 513297,998
Most in one year 3112,626
Babies in 2025 256,597
Estimated living today 510286,000
Median age today 1414
Peak year 20222013
Best rank 3,617th boys16th boys
Rank in 2025 4,139th36th
First recorded 19891880
Girls / boys 0 / 513778 / 297,220

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.

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: Jacarri and Jackson.