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Jaquavious vs Jaqueline

American parents have registered 15,531 Jaquelines since 1880, against 841 Jaquaviouses. Jaqueline is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaquavious against Jaqueline, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaquavious Jaqueline

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

Jaqueline has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1923 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Jaquavious had 15 and Jaqueline had 87.

Side by side

  Jaquavious Jaqueline
Total US births 84115,531
Most in one year 601,207
Babies in 2025 966
Estimated living today 83015,000
Median age today 2124
Peak year 20042000
Best rank 1,989th boys268th girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd2,607th
First recorded 19921923
Girls / boys 0 / 84115,508 / 23

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 Jaquelines alive today are over 24; half the Jaquaviouses are over 21. 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: Jaquavious and Jaqueline.