Jaycee

Where Jaycee comes from

Jaycee 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. 1968
    First appearance
    #7,016 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1980
    Jaycee Lee Dugard born
    American kidnapping victim
  3. 1983
    Jaycee Carroll born
    Azerbaijani basketball player
  4. 1988
    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.
  5. 2011
    Peak, #516
    568 babies named Jaycee — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #964.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Jaycee Carroll · Azerbaijani basketball player, born 1983
  • Jaycee Lee Dugard · American kidnapping victim, born 1980

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.