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Jaquarius vs Jaquel

American parents have registered 867 Jaquariuses since 1880, against 528 Jaquels. Jaquarius is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaquarius against Jaquel, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaquarius Jaquel

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

Of the 43 years in which either name was published, Jaquarius for 29 years and Jaquel for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Jaquarius Jaquel
Total US births 867528
Most in one year 6134
Babies in 2025 7under 5
Estimated living today 850520
Median age today 2227
Peak year 20011998
Best rank 1,816th boys2,851st boys
Rank in 2025 9,714thunranked
First recorded 19901970
Girls / boys 0 / 867123 / 405

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 Jaquels alive today are over 27; half the Jaquariuses are over 22. That is 5 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: Jaquarius and Jaquel.