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Jaceyon vs Jackie

American parents have registered 170,153 Jackies since 1880, against 598 Jaceyons. Jackie is still ahead, with 148 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaceyon 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 2013, when Jaceyon had 89 and Jackie had 148.

Side by side

  Jaceyon Jackie
Total US births 598170,153
Most in one year 1035,573
Babies in 2025 28148
Estimated living today 590112,000
Median age today 964
Peak year 20141961
Best rank 1,551st boys112th girls
Rank in 2025 3,848th2,153rd
First recorded 20131899
Girls / boys 0 / 59891,253 / 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 Jackies alive today are over 64; half the Jaceyons are over 9. That is 55 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: Jaceyon and Jackie.