Jacen
#3,658 for boys in 2025, 30 births
- Peak · boys
- 2013 · 175 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,480since 1970
Jacen over time
Rank among boys' names. Jacen has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,658 | 30 |
| 2024 | #2,715 | 48 |
| 2023 | #2,769 | 46 |
| 2022 | #3,100 | 39 |
| 2021 | #2,523 | 52 |
| 2020 | #2,190 | 63 |
| 2019 | #2,228 | 62 |
| 2018 | #1,724 | 90 |
| 2017 | #1,725 | 90 |
| 2016 | #1,399 | 125 |
| 2015 | #1,453 | 116 |
| 2014 | #1,229 | 148 |
| 2013 | #1,070 | 175 |
| 2012 | #1,407 | 118 |
| 2011 | #1,331 | 127 |
| 2010 | #1,525 | 106 |
| 2009 | #1,665 | 94 |
| 2008 | #1,603 | 98 |
| 2007 | #1,539 | 102 |
| 2006 | #1,654 | 86 |
| 2005 | #2,129 | 57 |
| 2004 | #2,024 | 59 |
| 2003 | #1,815 | 65 |
| 2002 | #1,974 | 56 |
| 2001 | #2,346 | 42 |
| 2000 | #1,968 | 52 |
| 1999 | #2,722 | 31 |
| 1998 | #2,394 | 36 |
| 1997 | #2,546 | 31 |
| 1996 | #2,590 | 29 |
| 1995 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | #4,537 | 13 |
| 1993 | #5,771 | 9 |
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| 1991 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #6,415 | 7 |
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| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #4,333 | 9 |
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| 1983 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #3,412 | 12 |
| 1980 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #3,471 | 10 |
| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #2,674 | 14 |
| 1973 | #3,223 | 10 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jacen! It came in at #4,230, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Jacen is popular in 1970
No state had 5 or more boys named Jacen in 1970, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Jacen
- 943 spots since 2024 (#2,715 → #3,658)
- 1,468 spots since 2020 (#2,190 → #3,658)
- 2,205 spots since 2015 (#1,453 → #3,658)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2013 at #1,070 (175 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,809 boys born in 2013 were named Jacen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 56,936 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 46.7% of all boys named Jacen (1,157) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 84 | #2,674 (1974) | #3,921 |
| 1980s | 66 | #3,412 (1981) | #4,851 |
| 1990s | 184 | #2,394 (1998) | #4,024 |
| 2000s | 711 | #1,539 (2007) | #1,872 |
| 2010s | 1,157 | #1,070 (2013) | #1,509 |
| 2020s | 278 | #2,190 (2020) | #2,826 |
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.
Jacen in 1970
Top boys' names in 1970
More about 1970
boys
1,858,229 boys got a published name in 1970; 1 in 309,705 of them was named Jacen, which outranked 22.1% of the 5,433 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,836Zan7
- #3,836Zeferino7
- #3,836Zoe7
- #4,230Jacen6
- #4,230Abbott6
- #4,230Abdon6
- #4,230Ade6
- #4,724Abelino5
- #4,724Abimael5
- #4,724Adolpho5
Tied with 493 names at #4,230; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.