Jac

Peak · boys
1952 · 17 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
615
since 1915

Jac over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Jac has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #1,856, 1952boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#5,86115
2024#7,25711
2023#5,47017
2022#5,21518
2021—
2020#8,7398
2019#7,64310
2018#7,61710
2017#6,33813
2016#5,55516
2015#8,7448
2014#9,6427
2013#5,65915
2012#9,7097
2011#8,0799
2010#10,7666
2009#7,23611
2008#5,76715
2007#8,9158
2006#7,9989
2005#6,22612
2004#7,5369
2003#10,8945
2002#7,6438
2001#5,66712
2000#6,8399
1999#9,9125
1998#5,46611
1997#6,6188
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1990#8,1175
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1984#6,3155
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1978#5,7725
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1973#4,5056
1972#4,4416
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1970#4,2306
1969#3,9356
1968#2,73510
1967#3,5596
1966#3,5376
1965#2,61710
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1963#2,67310
1962#2,8489
1961#2,70610
1960#2,68510
1959#2,11115
1958#2,50611
1957#3,2577
1956#1,88618
1955#2,43511
1954#2,9428
1953#2,7099
1952#1,85617
1951#2,13513
1950#2,7708
1949#2,8028
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1946#3,5255
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1944#3,4305
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1942#2,38610
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1940#3,4595
1939#2,8297
1938#3,5345
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1934#2,39310
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1929#3,5596
1928#2,8439
1927#2,9129
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1923#3,8226
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1919#3,7366
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1915#3,8255
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First appearance
1915

The first year at least five boys were named Jac! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1915–1918, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Jac is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Jac in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Jac
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 1,396 spots since 2024 (#7,257 → #5,861)
  • 2,878 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #5,861)
  • 2,883 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #5,861)
Rise & fade · boys
37 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 1952 at #1,856 (17 births)
  • Births halved by 1954, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 97,000
  • Highest: 1 in 97,000 boys born in 2022 were named Jac (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,856 in 1952, was only 1 in 114,331 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1950s
  • 19.0% of all boys named Jac (117) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s11#3,736 (1919)#3,781
1920s30#2,843 (1928)#3,284
1930s22#2,393 (1934)#2,919
1940s33#2,386 (1942)#3,120
1950s117#1,856 (1952)#2,461
1960s77#2,617 (1965)#3,033
1970s23#4,230 (1970)#4,737
1980s5#6,315 (1984)#6,315
1990s29#5,466 (1998)#7,528
2000s98#5,667 (2001)#7,472
2010s101#5,555 (2016)#7,975
2020s69#5,215 (2022)#6,508

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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