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Jackie vs Jacorey

American parents have registered 170,153 Jackies since 1880, against 2,233 Jacoreys. Jackie is still ahead, with 148 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jackie Jacorey

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 2010, when Jackie had 179 and Jacorey had 101.

Side by side

  Jackie Jacorey
Total US births 170,1532,233
Most in one year 5,573111
Babies in 2025 14820
Estimated living today 112,0002,200
Median age today 6420
Peak year 19612009
Best rank 112th girls1,497th boys
Rank in 2025 2,153rd4,857th
First recorded 18991980
Girls / boys 91,253 / 78,9000 / 2,233

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 Jacoreys are over 20. That is 44 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: Jackie and Jacorey.