Humanverse

Jaceion vs Jacqueline

American parents have registered 427,479 Jacquelines since 1880, against 520 Jaceions. Jacqueline is still ahead, with 541 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaceion Jacqueline

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

Jacqueline has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1891 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Jaceion had 39 and Jacqueline had 629.

Side by side

  Jaceion Jacqueline
Total US births 520427,479
Most in one year 6212,023
Babies in 2025 23541
Estimated living today 520338,000
Median age today 753
Peak year 20161964
Best rank 2,184th boys37th girls
Rank in 2025 4,396th558th
First recorded 20121891
Girls / boys 0 / 520426,088 / 1,391

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 Jacquelines alive today are over 53; half the Jaceions are over 7. That is 46 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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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