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Jackie vs Jacquez

American parents have registered 170,153 Jackies since 1880, against 1,725 Jacquezes. Jackie is still ahead, with 148 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jackie Jacquez

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 1998, when Jackie had 375 and Jacquez had 168.

Side by side

  Jackie Jacquez
Total US births 170,1531,725
Most in one year 5,573168
Babies in 2025 14811
Estimated living today 112,0001,700
Median age today 6425
Peak year 19611998
Best rank 112th girls863rd boys
Rank in 2025 2,153rd7,194th
First recorded 18991984
Girls / boys 91,253 / 78,9000 / 1,725

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 Jacquezes are over 25. That is 39 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 Jacquez.