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Jaqueline vs Jaquez

American parents have registered 15,531 Jaquelines since 1880, against 2,160 Jaquezes. Jaqueline is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaqueline against Jaquez, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaqueline Jaquez

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

Jaqueline has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1923 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2018, when Jaqueline had 87 and Jaquez had 37.

Side by side

  Jaqueline Jaquez
Total US births 15,5312,160
Most in one year 1,207167
Babies in 2025 6616
Estimated living today 15,0002,100
Median age today 2422
Peak year 20002002
Best rank 268th girls959th boys
Rank in 2025 2,607th5,608th
First recorded 19231987
Girls / boys 15,508 / 230 / 2,160

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 Jaquelines alive today are over 24; half the Jaquezes are over 22. That is 2 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: Jaqueline and Jaquez.