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Jackie vs Jacqueli

American parents have registered 170,153 Jackies since 1880, against 157 Jacquelis. Jackie is still ahead, with 148 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jackie Jacqueli

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 1989, when Jackie had 768 and Jacqueli had 157.

Side by side

  Jackie Jacqueli
Total US births 170,153157
Most in one year 5,573157
Babies in 2025 148under 5
Estimated living today 112,000150
Median age today 6436
Peak year 19611989
Best rank 112th girls1,076th girls
Rank in 2025 2,153rdunranked
First recorded 18991989
Girls / boys 91,253 / 78,900157 / 0

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 Jacquelis are over 36. That is 28 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 Jacqueli.