Jacques
Last seen for girls in 2001 at #15,352 · #1,932 for boys in 2025, 80 births
Given to boys 97.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1969 · 170 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,734since 1888
Jacques over time
Rank among boys' names. Jacques has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,932 | 80 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,370 | 59 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,416 | 56 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,517 | 54 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,253 | 62 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,069 | 68 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,129 | 67 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,901 | 78 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,065 | 67 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,991 | 72 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,717 | 90 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,017 | 70 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,915 | 73 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,959 | 72 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,687 | 88 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,677 | 92 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,731 | 89 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,532 | 105 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,681 | 90 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,492 | 102 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,431 | 103 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,435 | 98 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,282 | 110 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,147 | 124 | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #1,089 | 131 |
| 2000 | — | #1,087 | 129 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,086 | 123 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #913 | 157 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #886 | 156 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #942 | 138 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #896 | 149 |
| 1994 | — | #950 | 135 | |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #859 | 151 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #896 | 139 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | #833 | 154 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 | #797 | 162 |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | #862 | 136 |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 | #780 | 146 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 | #787 | 137 |
| 1986 | — | #807 | 125 | |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | #736 | 144 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | #759 | 130 |
| 1983 | — | #820 | 114 | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #804 | 121 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #741 | 138 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #725 | 146 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #770 | 126 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #820 | 108 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #819 | 108 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #815 | 105 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #770 | 116 |
| 1974 | — | #732 | 123 | |
| 1973 | — | #629 | 158 | |
| 1972 | — | #635 | 155 | |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 | #665 | 154 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | #660 | 154 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | #601 | 170 |
| 1968 | — | #649 | 135 | |
| 1967 | — | #732 | 101 | |
| 1966 | — | #713 | 108 | |
| 1965 | — | #660 | 126 | |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | #741 | 108 |
| 1963 | — | #661 | 139 | |
| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 | #763 | 100 |
| 1961 | — | #682 | 126 | |
| 1960 | — | #742 | 108 | |
| 1959 | — | #742 | 106 | |
| 1958 | — | #855 | 78 | |
| 1957 | — | #758 | 98 | |
| 1956 | — | #880 | 72 | |
| 1955 | — | #772 | 89 | |
| 1954 | — | #772 | 85 | |
| 1953 | — | #805 | 79 | |
| 1952 | — | #883 | 63 | |
| 1951 | — | #824 | 73 | |
| 1950 | — | #904 | 57 | |
| 1949 | — | #923 | 56 | |
| 1948 | — | #972 | 51 | |
| 1947 | — | #842 | 67 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,031 | 44 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,056 | 37 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,135 | 34 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,240 | 31 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,214 | 33 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,532 | 20 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,019 | 40 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,238 | 28 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,171 | 31 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,212 | 30 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,463 | 21 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,247 | 29 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,189 | 31 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,124 | 34 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,286 | 28 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,102 | 38 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,151 | 37 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,214 | 33 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,165 | 37 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,098 | 42 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,264 | 33 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,073 | 42 | |
| 1924 | — | #980 | 52 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,041 | 46 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,058 | 44 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,069 | 43 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,020 | 46 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,122 | 38 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,112 | 38 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,479 | 23 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,505 | 22 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,306 | 26 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,342 | 20 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,580 | 12 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,223 | 15 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,117 | 10 | |
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | #1,091 | 6 | |
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | #968 | 8 | |
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | #885 | 7 | |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | #872 | 7 | |
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | #917 | 6 | |
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Jacques! It came in at #917, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1889–1894, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Jacques
- 438 spots since 2024 (#2,370 → #1,932)
- 137 spots since 2020 (#2,069 → #1,932)
- 215 spots since 2015 (#1,717 → #1,932)
- Biggest jump: 189 spots in 1947 (#1,031 → #842)
- Biggest drop: 173 spots in 1999 (#913 → #1,086)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 1969 at #601 (170 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 43 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 57 yrs · run 1947–1998
- Highest: 1 in 9,864 boys born in 1973 were named Jacques (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,351 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #601 in 1969, was only 1 in 10,519 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 15.0% of all boys named Jacques (1,464) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | #917 (1888) | #917 |
| 1890s | 14 | #872 (1895) | #879 |
| 1900s | 14 | #968 (1900) | #1,030 |
| 1910s | 204 | #1,112 (1918) | #1,310 |
| 1920s | 418 | #980 (1924) | #1,098 |
| 1930s | 307 | #1,102 (1931) | #1,218 |
| 1940s | 413 | #842 (1947) | #1,096 |
| 1950s | 800 | #742 (1959) | #820 |
| 1960s | 1,221 | #601 (1969) | #694 |
| 1970s | 1,307 | #629 (1973) | #732 |
| 1980s | 1,337 | #725 (1980) | #782 |
| 1990s | 1,464 | #797 (1990) | #906 |
| 2000s | 1,081 | #1,087 (2000) | #1,391 |
| 2010s | 769 | #1,677 (2010) | #1,906 |
| 2020s | 379 | #1,932 (2025) | #2,260 |
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.
Jacques in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 178,363 of them was named Jacques, which outranked 44.1% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,189Yvonda10
- #6,189Zainab10
- #6,189Zita10
- #6,696Jacques9
- #6,696Abril9
- #6,696Adalia9
- #6,696Adel9
- #7,313Abraham8
- #7,313Addrienne8
- #7,313Adreanne8
Tied with 616 names at #6,696; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 13,663 of them was named Jacques, which outranked 89.1% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #765Dejuan128
- #768Alphonso127
- #768Marlin127
- #770Jacques126
- #770Brannon126
- #770Cleveland126
- #770Cyrus126
- #775Garret125
- #775Zebulon125
- #777Federico124
Tied with 4 names at #770; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.