Jackson vs Jacqueline
American parents have registered 427,479 Jacquelines since 1880, against 297,998 Jacksons. But in 2025 it was Jackson that was commoner, 6,597 babies to 541.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jackson 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
Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Jacqueline for 87 years and Jackson for 59 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.
- 1880–1907 Jackson ahead
- 1908–1911 Jacqueline ahead
- 1912 Jackson ahead
- 1913 Jacqueline ahead
- 1914 Jackson ahead
- 1915 Jacqueline ahead
- 1916 Jackson ahead
- 1917–1997 Jacqueline ahead
- 1998–2025 Jackson ahead
Side by side
| Jackson | Jacqueline | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 297,998 | 427,479 |
| Most in one year | 12,626 | 12,023 |
| Babies in 2025 | 6,597 | 541 |
| Estimated living today | 286,000 | 338,000 |
| Median age today | 14 | 53 |
| Peak year | 2013 | 1964 |
| Best rank | 16th boys | 37th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 36th | 558th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1891 |
| Girls / boys | 778 / 297,220 | 426,088 / 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 Jacksons are over 14. That is 39 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Jackson Utah (2.1×), New Hampshire (1.8×), Nevada (1.8×)
- Jacqueline the District of Columbia (2.1×), Rhode Island (1.5×), New Jersey (1.4×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Jackson | Jacqueline |
|---|---|---|
| France | 935 | 372,425 |
| England and Wales | 12,078 | 882 |
| New Zealand | 3,711 | 5,559 |
| Ireland | 607 | 5,803 |
| Scotland | 1,510 | 4,767 |
| Northern Ireland | 551 | 41 |
| Switzerland | 102 | 219 |
| Belgium | 57 | 169 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jackson and Jacqueline.