Jack

#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #15 for boys in 2025, 8,748 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time

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Peak · boys
2021 · 9,568 births
Debut · boys
204 births
In top 100 · boys
114 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · boys
756,943
since 1880

Jack over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100rank188019001920194019601980200020202020boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#13,2086#158,748
2024#11,1228#158,472
2023#8,05513#148,715
2022#11,2318#158,936
2021#7,25015#119,568
2020#7,55914#218,945
2019#7,71614#199,404
2018#11,4278#288,894
2017#10,6899#368,477
2016#9,41111#388,430
2015#14,4826#408,514
2014#10,9559#418,753
2013#13,1507#408,577
2012#10,42910#467,941
2011#16,7645#458,185
2010#13,4487#458,520
2009#8,45414#429,029
2008#8,10915#399,897
2007#7,73316#3810,671
2006#6,12521#3610,837
2005#9,45211#3410,906
2004#4,81627#429,580
2003#7,58014#459,318
2002#7,81613#449,000
2001#8,75811#488,149
2000#11,8017#468,125
1999#9,4799#527,385
1998#8,01611#616,376
1997#10,8367#764,984
1996#11,8076#894,245
1995#13,3865#1103,448
1994#13,4305#1272,781
1993—#1432,425
1992#9,4918#1542,070
1991#8,5889#1661,949
1990—#1661,838
1989#9,6817#1781,716
1988#6,27712#1711,655
1987#4,66017#1641,656
1986#9,5456#1751,522
1985#5,67812#1761,523
1984#7,3988#1731,483
1983#3,94919#1721,526
1982#4,94514#1661,620
1981#7,4098#1661,616
1980#5,24513#1581,627
1979#4,23117#1611,582
1978#4,07917#1561,579
1977#4,42515#1491,672
1976#4,36314#1491,662
1975#7,1737#1421,742
1974#6,2588#1491,648
1973#5,19110#1381,850
1972#3,54317#1421,899
1971#4,81011#1322,364
1970#3,71216#1292,564
1969#3,31817#1222,606
1968#3,78913#1102,692
1967#3,65613#1122,782
1966#4,4939#1072,964
1965#2,60522#1043,199
1964#3,69213#993,809
1963#3,45814#1023,814
1962#3,43814#994,170
1961#3,06017#904,639
1960#3,21215#854,918
1959#2,98016#855,015
1958#3,54312#805,301
1957#3,15014#676,024
1956#3,18614#666,051
1955#2,83916#606,200
1954#2,51919#576,475
1953#2,81215#576,540
1952#3,7969#526,937
1951#2,39118#487,004
1950#2,65215#486,840
1949#2,13421#477,128
1948#2,70114#437,612
1947#2,04523#378,507
1946#2,02421#357,801
1945#1,99318#326,857
1944#1,86721#307,253
1943#1,70325#347,398
1942#1,76023#347,365
1941#1,61024#326,950
1940#1,79220#297,048
1939#1,30832#267,306
1938#1,18238#258,144
1937#1,45126#238,194
1936#1,64021#208,857
1935#1,10140#189,438
1934#1,06243#179,985
1933#93753#179,838
1932#98951#1710,716
1931#72885#1511,488
1930#74488#1412,430
1929#77781#1412,167
1928#72196#1512,494
1927#80082#1612,802
1926#79084#1612,195
1925#75895#1712,011
1924#86475#1711,921
1923#94161#1711,190
1922#90665#1810,847
1921#96459#1810,757
1920#93960#209,599
1919#95455#218,263
1918#1,18440#218,341
1917#98650#226,875
1916#1,05943#266,161
1915#1,11537#275,749
1914#1,34422#274,485
1913#1,30819#283,538
1912#1,17820#282,870
1911#1,54510#251,668
1910#1,17115#231,576
1909—#271,150
1908#1,8626#271,086
1907#1,8216#261,019
1906#1,7276#30880
1905#1,6966#28907
1904#1,3648#27908
1903—#28831
1902#1,13310#32743
1901—#32645
1900#1,9325#271,053
1899#1,1818#35582
1898—#37633
1897—#42497
1896#1,5835#40539
1895#1,4266#46479
1894—#47441
1893—#50405
1892—#54401
1891—#62290
1890#1,3385#53368
1889#1,2795#60322
1888—#64329
1887—#68251
1886—#64299
1885—#61295
1884—#68274
1883—#65242
1882—#66271
1881—#73197
1880—#77204
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Jack was already there! It came in at #77, and was given to 204 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1880–1885, when fewer than 300 boys a year got the name.

Where Jack is popular in 2020

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: #42 for boys · 17 births · 1 in 150 boysAKMaine: #5 for boys · 54 births · 1 in 71 boysMEVermont: #16 for boys · 17 births · 1 in 76 boysVTNew Hampshire: #5 for boys · 67 births · 1 in 65 boysNHWashington: #13 for boys · 222 births · 1 in 149 boysWAIdaho: #13 for boys · 65 births · 1 in 119 boysIDMontana: #6 for boys · 40 births · 1 in 82 boysMTNorth Dakota: #6 for boys · 40 births · 1 in 84 boysNDMinnesota: #5 for boys · 257 births · 1 in 97 boysMNIllinois: #12 for boys · 404 births · 1 in 135 boysILWisconsin: #6 for boys · 227 births · 1 in 105 boysWIMichigan: #11 for boys · 327 births · 1 in 131 boysMINew York: #14 for boys · 644 births · 1 in 136 boysNYMassachusetts: #9 for boys · 297 births · 1 in 90 boysMARhode Island: #11 for boys · 40 births · 1 in 84 boysRIOregon: #8 for boys · 144 births · 1 in 107 boysORNevada: #64 for boys · 48 births · 1 in 247 boysNVWyoming: #10 for boys · 18 births · 1 in 67 boysWYSouth Dakota: #8 for boys · 39 births · 1 in 86 boysSDIowa: #7 for boys · 121 births · 1 in 112 boysIAIndiana: #25 for boys · 185 births · 1 in 175 boysINOhio: #20 for boys · 339 births · 1 in 161 boysOHPennsylvania: #14 for boys · 392 births · 1 in 138 boysPANew Jersey: #16 for boys · 299 births · 1 in 131 boysNJConnecticut: #8 for boys · 149 births · 1 in 88 boysCTCalifornia: #46 for boys · 812 births · 1 in 234 boysCAUtah: #4 for boys · 226 births · 1 in 85 boysUTColorado: #8 for boys · 216 births · 1 in 116 boysCONebraska: #8 for boys · 76 births · 1 in 115 boysNEMissouri: #16 for boys · 205 births · 1 in 139 boysMOKentucky: #45 for boys · 90 births · 1 in 218 boysKYWest Virginia: #76 for boys · 27 births · 1 in 258 boysWVVirginia: #32 for boys · 219 births · 1 in 177 boysVAMaryland: #38 for boys · 127 births · 1 in 197 boysMDDelaware: #36 for boys · 23 births · 1 in 134 boysDEArizona: #40 for boys · 159 births · 1 in 201 boysAZNew Mexico: #108 for boys · 18 births · 1 in 404 boysNMKansas: #20 for boys · 87 births · 1 in 158 boysKSArkansas: #26 for boys · 71 births · 1 in 180 boysARTennessee: #24 for boys · 189 births · 1 in 180 boysTNNorth Carolina: #27 for boys · 265 births · 1 in 185 boysNCSouth Carolina: #50 for boys · 87 births · 1 in 230 boysSCDistrict of Columbia: #7 for boys · 50 births · 1 in 70 boysDCOklahoma: #32 for boys · 92 births · 1 in 193 boysOKLouisiana: #39 for boys · 92 births · 1 in 234 boysLAMississippi: #65 for boys · 46 births · 1 in 263 boysMSAlabama: #48 for boys · 91 births · 1 in 239 boysALGeorgia: #38 for boys · 219 births · 1 in 230 boysGAHawaii: #31 for boys · 24 births · 1 in 144 boysHITexas: #68 for boys · 573 births · 1 in 295 boysTXFlorida: #35 for boys · 409 births · 1 in 221 boysFL

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Top states · boys
  1. Utah#4 · 1 in 85
  2. New Hampshire#5 · 1 in 65
  3. Maine#5 · 1 in 71
  4. Minnesota#5 · 1 in 97
  5. Montana#6 · 1 in 82

Best ever in a state: #1 in Wyoming, 2023.

Show every state
StateRankBirthsShare
Utah#42261 in 85
Maine#5541 in 71
Minnesota#52571 in 97
New Hampshire#5671 in 65
Montana#6401 in 82
North Dakota#6401 in 84
Wisconsin#62271 in 105
District of Columbia#7501 in 70
Iowa#71211 in 112
Colorado#82161 in 116
Connecticut#81491 in 88
Nebraska#8761 in 115
Oregon#81441 in 107
South Dakota#8391 in 86
Massachusetts#92971 in 90
Wyoming#10181 in 67
Michigan#113271 in 131
Rhode Island#11401 in 84
Illinois#124041 in 135
Idaho#13651 in 119
Washington#132221 in 149
New York#146441 in 136
Pennsylvania#143921 in 138
Missouri#162051 in 139
New Jersey#162991 in 131
Vermont#16171 in 76
Kansas#20871 in 158
Ohio#203391 in 161
Tennessee#241891 in 180
Indiana#251851 in 175
Arkansas#26711 in 180
North Carolina#272651 in 185
Hawaii#31241 in 144
Oklahoma#32921 in 193
Virginia#322191 in 177
Florida#354091 in 221
Delaware#36231 in 134
Georgia#382191 in 230
Maryland#381271 in 197
Louisiana#39921 in 234
Arizona#401591 in 201
Alaska#42171 in 150
Kentucky#45901 in 218
California#468121 in 234
Alabama#48911 in 239
South Carolina#50871 in 230
Nevada#64481 in 247
Mississippi#65461 in 263
Texas#685731 in 295
West Virginia#76271 in 258
New Mexico#108181 in 404

Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.

See more about Jack
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • Held #15 since 2024
  • 6 spots since 2020 (#21 → #15)
  • 25 spots since 2015 (#40 → #15)
  • Biggest jump: 21 spots in 1996 (#110 → #89)
  • Biggest drop: 13 spots in 1958 (#67 → #80)
Rise & fade · boys
141 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 2021 at #11 (9,568 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 100 for 114 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 114 yrs · run 1880–1962
  • Top 1,000: 146 yrs · run 1880–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 88
  • Highest: 1 in 88 boys born in 1927 were named Jack (1.1%)
  • Latest: 1 in 195 boys born in 2025 (0.51%)
  • Its best rank, #11 in 2021, was only 1 in 183 (0.55%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 15.3% of all boys named Jack (115,983) were born in this decade
  • Comeback: #14 (1930) → #178 (1989) → #11 (2021)
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s2,684#60 (1889)#67
1890s4,635#35 (1899)#47
1900s9,222#26 (1907)#28
1910s49,526#21 (1918)#25
1920s115,983#14 (1929)#17
1930s96,396#14 (1930)#19
1940s73,919#29 (1940)#35
1950s62,387#48 (1951)#62
1960s35,593#85 (1960)#103
1970s18,562#129 (1970)#145
1980s15,944#158 (1980)#170
1990s37,501#52 (1999)#114
2000s95,512#34 (2005)#41
2010s85,695#19 (2019)#38
2020s53,384#11 (2021)#15

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.

Jack in 2020

girls
#7,559
14 births · 1 in 115,468 girls
boys
#21
8,945 births · 1 in 193 boys

Top girls' names in 2020

  1. #1Olivia17,691
  2. #2Emma15,723
  3. #3Ava13,201
  4. #4Sophia13,105
  5. #5Charlotte13,100
  6. #6Amelia12,802
  7. #7Isabella12,226
  8. #8Mia11,269
  9. #9Evelyn9,517
  10. #10Harper8,849
  11. #7,559Jack14

Top boys' names in 2020

  1. #1Liam19,865
  2. #2Noah18,464
  3. #3Oliver14,277
  4. #4Elijah13,238
  5. #5William12,676
  6. #6James12,390
  7. #7Benjamin12,264
  8. #8Lucas11,386
  9. #9Henry10,793
  10. #10Alexander10,268
  11. #21Jack8,945
More about 2020

girls

1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 115,468 of them was named Jack, which outranked 56.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jack
  1. #7,212Zeynet15
  2. #7,212Zoraya15
  3. #7,212Zylee15
  4. #7,559Jack14
  5. #7,559Aarushi14
  6. #7,559Ace14
  7. #7,559Adaia14
  8. #7,969Aaleah13
  9. #7,969Aanika13
  10. #7,969Abi13

Tied with 409 names at #7,559; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2019
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,492Avayah#2,428 → #936
  2. ↑ 950Denisse#1,802 → #852
  3. ↑ 818Jianna#1,668 → #850
  4. ↑ 609Capri#1,291 → #682
  5. ↑ 550Rosalia#1,287 → #737
Fallers
  1. ↓ 393Yaritza#813 → #1,206
  2. ↓ 271Seraphina#1,000 → #1,271
  3. ↓ 207Marissa#874 → #1,081
  4. ↓ 203Annabella#644 → #847
  5. ↓ 195Jayde#832 → #1,027

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 193 of them was named Jack, which outranked 99.9% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jack
  1. #18Levi9,098
  2. #19Sebastian9,029
  3. #20Mateo9,007
  4. #21Jack8,945
  5. #22Owen8,669
  6. #23Theodore8,638
  7. #24Aiden8,619
Biggest movers since 2019
Risers
  1. ↑ 587Zyair#1,548 → #961
  2. ↑ 567Jaxtyn#1,152 → #585
  3. ↑ 539Jakobe#1,372 → #833
  4. ↑ 473Kylo#922 → #449
  5. ↑ 461Ander#1,085 → #624
Fallers
  1. ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
  2. ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
  3. ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
  4. ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
  5. ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2020 →