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Jaceion vs Jackson

American parents have registered 297,998 Jacksons since 1880, against 520 Jaceions. Jackson is still ahead, with 6,597 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaceion 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 2016, when Jaceion had 62 and Jackson had 11,341.

Side by side

  Jaceion Jackson
Total US births 520297,998
Most in one year 6212,626
Babies in 2025 236,597
Estimated living today 520286,000
Median age today 714
Peak year 20162013
Best rank 2,184th boys16th boys
Rank in 2025 4,396th36th
First recorded 20121880
Girls / boys 0 / 520778 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Jacksons alive today are over 14; half the Jaceions are over 7. That is 7 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: Jaceion and Jackson.