Jacky

Where Jacky comes from

From Jack + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jacky
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1925
    First appearance
    #3,408 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1953
    Peak, #547
    168 babies named Jacky — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1957
    Jacky Rosen born
    American politician
  4. 1961
    Jacky Cheung born
    Hong Kong singer and actor
  5. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #823.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline.
Namesakes
  • Jacky Cheung · Hong Kong singer and actor, born 1961
  • Jacky Rosen · American politician, born 1957
  • Jacky Ido · Burkinabe actor and musician, born 1977
  • Jacky Peeters · Belgian footballer, born 1969
  • Jacky Durand · French racing cyclist, born 1967

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.