Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Jack” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jack” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jack” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jack” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jack” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jack” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jack” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jack” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 204 0.001012487 204 -100%
1881 197 0.001022378 197 -100%
1882 271 0.001223294 271 -100%
1883 242 0.001115485 242 -100%
1884 274 0.001125437 274 -100%
1885 295 0.001224808 295 -100%
1886 299 0.001171098 299 -100%
1887 251 0.001014584 251 -100%
1888 329 0.001098593 329 -100%
1889 327 0.001131699 5 322 -97%
1890 373 0.001237554 5 368 -97%
1891 290 0.001011606 290 -100%
1892 401 0.001199256 401 -100%
1893 405 0.001245299 405 -100%
1894 441 0.001302076 441 -100%
1895 485 0.001381688 6 479 -98%
1896 544 0.001521746 5 539 -98%
1897 497 0.001432454 497 -100%
1898 633 0.001659436 633 -100%
1899 590 0.001739212 8 582 -97%
1900 1058 0.002349764 5 1053 -99%
1901 645 0.001865175 645 -100%
1902 753 0.00194708 10 743 -97%
1903 831 0.002179958 831 -100%
1904 916 0.002270221 8 908 -98%
1905 913 0.002153698 6 907 -99%
1906 886 0.002067914 6 880 -99%
1907 1025 0.002202454 6 1019 -99%
1908 1092 0.002234733 6 1086 -99%
1909 1150 0.002249503 1150 -100%
1910 1591 0.002693364 15 1576 -98%
1911 1678 0.002604466 10 1668 -99%
1912 2890 0.002924918 20 2870 -99%
1913 3557 0.003128106 19 3538 -99%
1914 4508 0.003182843 22 4486 -99%
1915 5785 0.003157017 37 5748 -99%
1916 6205 0.003207685 43 6162 -99%
1917 6924 0.003450355 50 6874 -99%
1918 8381 0.003860236 40 8341 -99%
1919 8318 0.003941722 55 8263 -99%
1920 9659 0.004268901 60 9599 -99%
1921 10816 0.004633102 59 10757 -99%
1922 10912 0.004766822 65 10847 -99%
1923 11251 0.004886468 61 11190 -99%
1924 11996 0.005036929 75 11921 -99%
1925 12106 0.005188355 95 12011 -98%
1926 12279 0.005348218 84 12195 -99%
1927 12884 0.005554985 82 12802 -99%
1928 12590 0.005568485 96 12494 -98%
1929 12248 0.005587181 81 12167 -99%
1930 12517 0.00562995 88 12429 -99%
1931 11574 0.005499936 85 11489 -99%
1932 10768 0.005100197 51 10717 -99%
1933 9891 0.004946868 53 9838 -99%
1934 10028 0.004828545 43 9985 -99%
1935 9478 0.004535145 40 9438 -99%
1936 8878 0.004273245 21 8857 -100%
1937 8222 0.00385888 26 8196 -99%
1938 8180 0.003697051 38 8142 -99%
1939 7338 0.003330244 32 7306 -99%
1940 7069 0.003069894 20 7049 -99%
1941 6974 0.002862391 24 6950 -99%
1942 7388 0.002704426 23 7365 -99%
1943 7422 0.002629529 25 7397 -99%
1944 7276 0.002704753 21 7255 -99%
1945 6873 0.00259074 18 6855 -99%
1946 7823 0.002448278 21 7802 -99%
1947 8530 0.002367917 23 8507 -99%
1948 7626 0.002208823 14 7612 -100%
1949 7149 0.002051495 21 7128 -99%
1950 6854 0.001956409 15 6839 -100%
1951 7022 0.001906215 18 7004 -99%
1952 6947 0.001829118 9 6938 -100%
1953 6554 0.001700728 15 6539 -100%
1954 6493 0.001631117 19 6474 -99%
1955 6216 0.001548163 16 6200 -99%
1956 6065 0.001471003 14 6051 -100%
1957 6038 0.001436886 14 6024 -100%
1958 5312 0.001284984 12 5300 -100%
1959 5032 0.0012102 16 5016 -99%
1960 4930 0.001186861 15 4915 -99%
1961 4656 0.001124013 17 4639 -99%
1962 4184 0.001036831 14 4170 -99%
1963 3830 0.000967612 14 3816 -99%
1964 3821 0.000982867 13 3808 -99%
1965 3220 0.000888166 22 3198 -99%
1966 2973 0.000855378 9 2964 -99%
1967 2795 0.000823295 13 2782 -99%
1968 2704 0.000800376 13 2691 -99%
1969 2624 0.000755038 17 2607 -99%
1970 2579 0.000715095 16 2563 -99%
1971 2376 0.000692236 11 2365 -99%
1972 1918 0.000610246 17 1901 -98%
1973 1860 0.00061653 10 1850 -99%
1974 1658 0.000545395 8 1650 -99%
1975 1750 0.000579586 7 1743 -99%
1976 1679 0.00055334 14 1665 -98%
1977 1688 0.000531403 15 1673 -98%
1978 1595 0.000502541 17 1578 -98%
1979 1599 0.000480613 17 1582 -98%
1980 1640 0.000476121 13 1627 -98%
1981 1623 0.00046916 8 1615 -99%
1982 1634 0.000465798 14 1620 -98%
1983 1545 0.000446101 19 1526 -98%
1984 1490 0.000427086 8 1482 -99%
1985 1535 0.000430079 12 1523 -98%
1986 1528 0.000429566 6 1522 -99%
1987 1673 0.000463999 17 1656 -98%
1988 1666 0.000450874 12 1654 -99%
1989 1724 0.000448439 7 1717 -99%
1990 1837 0.000464772 1837 -100%
1991 1958 0.000502662 9 1949 -99%
1992 2078 0.000540967 8 2070 -99%
1993 2424 0.000642923 2424 -100%
1994 2786 0.000749398 5 2781 -100%
1995 3455 0.000943434 5 3450 -100%
1996 4251 0.001165553 6 4245 -100%
1997 4991 0.001376543 7 4984 -100%
1998 6387 0.001736444 11 6376 -100%
1999 7395 0.002001967 9 7386 -100%
2000 8130 0.002150848 7 8123 -100%
2001 8160 0.002179842 11 8149 -100%
2002 9013 0.002410995 13 9000 -100%
2003 9331 0.002454029 14 9317 -100%
2004 9607 0.002514314 27 9580 -99%
2005 10916 0.002839126 11 10905 -100%
2006 10858 0.002744561 21 10837 -100%
2007 10687 0.002673299 16 10671 -100%
2008 9912 0.002521711 15 9897 -100%
2009 9043 0.002367169 14 9029 -100%
2010 8527 0.002307252 7 8520 -100%
2011 8189 0.002238782 5 8184 -100%
2012 7950 0.002173695 10 7940 -100%
2013 8584 0.002354576 7 8577 -100%
2014 8762 0.002364034 9 8753 -100%
2015 8519 0.002301865 6 8513 -100%
2016 8441 0.002300816 11 8430 -100%
2017 8486 0.002372913 9 8477 -100%
2018 8900 0.00253136 8 8892 -100%
2019 9416 0.002712815 14 9402 -100%
2020 8956 0.002680974 14 8942 -100%
2021 9578 0.002827079 15 9563 -100%
2022 8938 0.002641928 8 8930 -100%
2023 8723 0.002634396 13 8710 -100%
2024 8442 0.002536277 8 8434 -100%

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