Jackson
The boy's name Jackson has been in the national records since 1880, with 297,998 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 36th. About 286,000 Jacksons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jackson boys named Jackson
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 297,998
- Estimated living today
- 286,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2013
- Best rank
- 16th
- Rank in 2025
- 36th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 778 / 297,220
How old the living Jacksons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 297,998 babies given the name since 1880, about 286,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 186,000 of them are children and 2,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jacksons
- Jackson Pollock (1912–1956)American painter
- Jackson Browne (born 1948)American singer-songwriter
- Jackson MartÃnez (born 1986)Colombian footballer
- Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932)American historian
- Jackson Wang (born 1994)Chinese rapper and singer
- Jackson Rathbone (born 1984)American actor and musician
- William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865)English botanist and botanical illustrator
- Jackson Irvine (born 1993)Australian association football player
People named Jackson with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jackson is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jackson is most concentrated in Utah (2.1×), New Hampshire (1.8×), Nevada (1.8×), Colorado (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2013
The most popular boys’ names the year Jackson peaked:
Jackson elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Jackson | 12,078 | 74th |
| New Zealand boys | Jackson | 3,711 | 22nd |
| Scotland boys | Jackson | 1,510 | 51st |
| France boys | Jackson | 935 | 1,119th |
| Ireland boys | Jackson | 607 | 99th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jackson | 551 | 68th |
| Switzerland boys | Jackson | 102 | 562nd |
| Belgium boys | Jackson | 57 | 919th |
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.
Jackson: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jackson | 53 | 0.004% | 544th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jackson | 47 | 0.011% | 322nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Jackson | 2 | 0.003% | 179th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jackson is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 33 of them.
Jackson: rank by region
In 2025, Jackson was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jackson | 714 | 7 |
In 2019, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jackson appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (219th).
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.
Jackson by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 10 | 443rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Jackson 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 | Jackson | 42 | 72 |
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
Jackson against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.