Jackie
The girl's name Jackie has been in the national records since 1899, with 170,153 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,153rd. About 112,000 Jackies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Jackie
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Jackie crossed from boys to girls in 1956, having already crossed in 1925, and has stayed there for 41 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 77% girls, and in 2025 it was 58%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 119 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 170,153
- Estimated living today
- 112,000
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1961
- Best rank
- 112th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,153rd
- First recorded
- 1899
- Girls / boys
- 91,253 / 78,900
How old the living Jackies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 170,153 babies given the name since 1899, about 112,000 are alive — 66 in every hundred. Roughly 3,100 of them are children and 52,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jackies
- Jackie Chan (born 1954)Hong Kong actor and martial artist
- Jackie Shroff (born 1957)Indian film actor
- Jackie Stewart (born 1939)Scottish racing driver
- Jackie Gleason (1916–1987)American comedian and actor
- Jackie Robinson (1919–1972)American baseball player
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee (born 1962)American track and field athlete
- Jackie Coogan (1914–1984)American actor
- Jackie Cooper (1922–2011)American actor, director
People named Jackie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jackie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jackie is most concentrated in Oklahoma (3.1×), West Virginia (3.0×), Arkansas (2.8×), Kentucky (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1961
The most popular girls’ names the year Jackie peaked:
Jackie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Jackie | 17,975 | 55th |
| France girls | Jackie | 1,440 | 587th |
| Belgium girls | Jackie | 216 | 405th |
| Scotland girls | Jackie | 112 | 296th |
| England and Wales girls | Jackie | 100 | 1,074th |
| England and Wales boys | Jackie | 65 | 2,276th |
| Scotland boys | Jackie | 45 | 232nd |
| Ireland girls | Jackie | 38 | 381st |
| Ireland boys | Jackie | 6 | 307th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jackie | 3 | 277th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jackie: rank by region
In 2025, Jackie was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jackie | 287 | 19 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jackie appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (136th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jackie among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jackie | 8 | 9 |
| Finland girls | Jackie | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Jackie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.