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Jaquan vs Jaquarius

American parents have registered 10,663 Jaquans since 1880, against 867 Jaquariuses. Jaquan is still ahead, with 61 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaquan against Jaquarius, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaquan Jaquarius

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

Jaquan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Jaquan had 226 and Jaquarius had 46.

Side by side

  Jaquan Jaquarius
Total US births 10,663867
Most in one year 56761
Babies in 2025 617
Estimated living today 10,000850
Median age today 2522
Peak year 19992001
Best rank 414th boys1,816th boys
Rank in 2025 2,284th9,714th
First recorded 19751990
Girls / boys 58 / 10,6050 / 867

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 Jaquans alive today are over 25; half the Jaquariuses are over 22. 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: Jaquan and Jaquarius.