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Jaquan vs Jaquelin

American parents have registered 10,663 Jaquans since 1880, against 3,851 Jaquelins. Jaquan is still ahead, with 61 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaquan against Jaquelin, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaquan Jaquelin

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 60 years in which either name was published, Jaquan for 48 years and Jaquelin for 12 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jaquan Jaquelin
Total US births 10,6633,851
Most in one year 567297
Babies in 2025 6112
Estimated living today 10,0003,800
Median age today 2522
Peak year 19992000
Best rank 414th boys768th girls
Rank in 2025 2,284th8,362nd
First recorded 19751915
Girls / boys 58 / 10,6053,851 / 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 Jaquans alive today are over 25; half the Jaquelins are over 22. That is 3 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: Jaquan and Jaquelin.