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Jaquavious vs Jaquelyn

American parents have registered 2,741 Jaquelyns since 1880, against 841 Jaquaviouses. But in 2025 it was Jaquavious that was commoner, 9 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaquavious against Jaquelyn, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaquavious Jaquelyn

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 74 years in which either name was published, Jaquelyn for 71 years and Jaquavious for 3 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jaquavious Jaquelyn
Total US births 8412,741
Most in one year 60127
Babies in 2025 95
Estimated living today 8302,700
Median age today 2124
Peak year 20042000
Best rank 1,989th boys1,447th girls
Rank in 2025 8,243rd14,942nd
First recorded 19921944
Girls / boys 0 / 8412,741 / 0

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 Jaquelyns alive today are over 24; half the Jaquaviouses are over 21. 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: Jaquavious and Jaquelyn.