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Jackie vs Jacopo

American parents have registered 170,153 Jackies since 1880, against 11 Jacopos. Jackie is still ahead, with 148 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jackie against Jacopo, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jackie Jacopo

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

Jackie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1899 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Jackie had 179 and Jacopo had 5.

Side by side

  Jackie Jacopo
Total US births 170,15311
Most in one year 5,5736
Babies in 2025 148under 5
Estimated living today 112,00011
Median age today 6424
Peak year 19612001
Best rank 112th girls9,243rd boys
Rank in 2025 2,153rdunranked
First recorded 18992001
Girls / boys 91,253 / 78,9000 / 11

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 Jackies alive today are over 64; half the Jacopos are over 24. That is 40 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jackie Jacopo
France 19,41525
England and Wales 16551

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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