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Jaquarius vs Jaquay

American parents have registered 867 Jaquariuses since 1880, against 579 Jaquays. Jaquarius is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaquarius against Jaquay, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaquarius Jaquay

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 45 years in which either name was published, Jaquarius for 31 years and Jaquay for 14 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jaquarius Jaquay
Total US births 867579
Most in one year 6157
Babies in 2025 75
Estimated living today 850560
Median age today 2228
Peak year 20012001
Best rank 1,816th boys3,061st boys
Rank in 2025 9,714th12,008th
First recorded 19901977
Girls / boys 0 / 867156 / 423

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 Jaquays alive today are over 28; half the Jaquariuses are over 22. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jaquarius and Jaquay.