Jackie

Where Jackie comes from

Jackie 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. 1899
    First appearance
    #1,099 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1954
    Jackie Chan born
    Hong Kong actor and martial artist
  3. 1957
    Jackie Shroff born
    Indian film actor
  4. 1961
    Peak, #112
    4,256 babies named Jackie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #174.
  6. 2013
    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
  • Jackie Chan · Hong Kong actor and martial artist, born 1954
  • Jackie Shroff · Indian film actor, born 1957
  • Jackie Joyner-Kersee · American track and field athlete, born 1962
  • Jackie Gleason · American comedian and actor, 1916–1987
  • Jackie Coogan · American actor, 1914–1984

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.