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Jaquarius vs Jaquita

American parents have registered 867 Jaquariuses since 1880, against 785 Jaquitas. Jaquarius is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jaquarius Jaquita

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 73 years in which either name was published, Jaquita for 43 years and Jaquarius for 30 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jaquarius Jaquita
Total US births 867785
Most in one year 6146
Babies in 2025 7under 5
Estimated living today 850730
Median age today 2239
Peak year 20011987
Best rank 1,816th boys2,309th girls
Rank in 2025 9,714thunranked
First recorded 19901939
Girls / boys 0 / 867785 / 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 Jaquitas alive today are over 39; half the Jaquariuses are over 22. That is 17 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: Jaquarius and Jaquita.