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Jacen

Jacen reached its high-water mark in 2013 at number 1,070, and has been recorded 2,480 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,658th. About 2,400 Jacens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Jacen

By the numbers

Total US births
2,480
Estimated living today
2,400
Median age today
14
Peak year
2013
Best rank
1,070th
Rank in 2025
3,658th
First recorded
1970

How old the living Jacens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,480 babies given the name since 1970, about 2,400 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Jacens

People named Jacen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Jacen is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jacen is most concentrated in Texas (3.8×), Florida (2.4×), California (2.1×), Georgia (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2013

The most popular boys’ names the year Jacen peaked:

All the names of 2013

Jacen elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Jacen 10 4,796th
England and Wales boys Jacen 9 4,789th
Scotland boys Jacen 3 669th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Jacen against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.