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Jackie vs Jacquees

American parents have registered 170,153 Jackies since 1880, against 180 Jacqueeses. Jackie is still ahead, with 148 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jackie Jacquees

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 2019, when Jackie had 122 and Jacquees had 28.

Side by side

  Jackie Jacquees
Total US births 170,153180
Most in one year 5,57334
Babies in 2025 14813
Estimated living today 112,000180
Median age today 647
Peak year 19612017
Best rank 112th girls3,312th boys
Rank in 2025 2,153rd6,446th
First recorded 18992015
Girls / boys 91,253 / 78,9000 / 180

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 Jacqueeses are over 7. That is 57 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: Jackie and Jacquees.