Jacki

Where Jacki comes from

Jacki hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1935
    First appearance
    #3,742 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1947
    Jacki Weaver born
    Australian actress
  3. 1961
    Peak, #815
    166 babies named Jacki — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,376.
  5. 1980
    Jacki R. Chan born
    American actress
  6. 2024
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jacki Weaver · Australian actress, born 1947
  • Jacki R. Chan · American actress, born 1980
  • Jacki McInnes · South African artist, born 1966

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.