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Jaquez vs Jaquon

American parents have registered 2,160 Jaquezes since 1880, against 729 Jaquons. Jaquez is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jaquez against Jaquon, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jaquez Jaquon

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 39 years in which either name was published, Jaquez for 38 years and Jaquon for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jaquez Jaquon
Total US births 2,160729
Most in one year 16757
Babies in 2025 169
Estimated living today 2,100710
Median age today 2225
Peak year 20022000
Best rank 959th boys1,848th boys
Rank in 2025 5,608th8,243rd
First recorded 19871988
Girls / boys 0 / 2,1600 / 729

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 Jaquons alive today are over 25; half the Jaquezes 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: Jaquez and Jaquon.