How popular is “Jackson” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jackson” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jackson” 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 “Jackson” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jackson” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jackson” 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	46	0.000228306		46	-100%
1881	28	0.000145313		28	-100%
1882	49	0.000221186		49	-100%
1883	34	0.000156721		34	-100%
1884	33	0.000135545		33	-100%
1885	29	0.000120405		29	-100%
1886	43	0.000168419		43	-100%
1887	31	0.000125307		31	-100%
1888	36	0.000120211		36	-100%
1889	42	0.000145356		42	-100%
1890	25	0.000082946		25	-100%
1891	31	0.000108137		31	-100%
1892	32	0.000095701		32	-100%
1893	28	0.000086095		28	-100%
1894	32	0.000094482		32	-100%
1895	32	0.000091163		32	-100%
1896	32	0.000089514		32	-100%
1897	42	0.000121052		42	-100%
1898	26	0.00006816		26	-100%
1899	31	0.000091382		31	-100%
1900	60	0.000133257		60	-100%
1901	24	0.000069402		24	-100%
1902	40	0.000103431		40	-100%
1903	34	0.000089192		34	-100%
1904	49	0.000121442		49	-100%
1905	36	0.000084921		36	-100%
1906	33	0.000077022		33	-100%
1907	52	0.000111734		52	-100%
1908	38	0.000077765		38	-100%
1909	38	0.000074331		38	-100%
1910	51	0.000086337		51	-100%
1911	46	0.000071398		46	-100%
1912	91	0.000092099		91	-100%
1913	107	0.000094098		107	-100%
1914	149	0.0001052		149	-100%
1915	175	0.000095502		175	-100%
1916	177	0.0000915		177	-100%
1917	206	0.000102654		206	-100%
1918	216	0.000099488		216	-100%
1919	235	0.000111361		235	-100%
1920	233	0.000102977		233	-100%
1921	246	0.000105376		246	-100%
1922	225	0.000098289		225	-100%
1923	269	0.00011683		269	-100%
1924	229	0.000096153		229	-100%
1925	256	0.000109716	7	249	-95%
1926	231	0.000100614		231	-100%
1927	199	0.0000858		199	-100%
1928	244	0.00010792		244	-100%
1929	202	0.000092147		202	-100%
1930	216	0.000097153		216	-100%
1931	188	0.000089337		188	-100%
1932	167	0.000079099		167	-100%
1933	155	0.000077521		155	-100%
1934	175	0.000084264		175	-100%
1935	168	0.000080387		168	-100%
1936	167	0.000080382		167	-100%
1937	159	0.000074624		159	-100%
1938	156	0.000070506		156	-100%
1939	162	0.000073521		162	-100%
1940	167	0.000072524		167	-100%
1941	176	0.000072237		176	-100%
1942	196	0.000071747		196	-100%
1943	206	0.000072983		206	-100%
1944	177	0.000065797		177	-100%
1945	168	0.000063327		168	-100%
1946	178	0.000055707		178	-100%
1947	187	0.000051911		187	-100%
1948	178	0.000051557		178	-100%
1949	158	0.00004534		158	-100%
1950	164	0.000046812		164	-100%
1951	159	0.000043163		159	-100%
1952	162	0.000042654		162	-100%
1953	132	0.000034253		132	-100%
1954	115	0.000028889		115	-100%
1955	127	0.000031631		127	-100%
1956	120	0.000029105		120	-100%
1957	130	0.000030937		130	-100%
1958	121	0.00002927		121	-100%
1959	117	0.000028139		117	-100%
1960	112	0.000026963		112	-100%
1961	91	0.000021968		91	-100%
1962	105	0.00002602		105	-100%
1963	110	0.00002779		110	-100%
1964	101	0.00002598		101	-100%
1965	104	0.000028686		104	-100%
1966	82	0.000023593		82	-100%
1967	94	0.000027689		94	-100%
1968	110	0.00003256		110	-100%
1969	85	0.000024458		85	-100%
1970	108	0.000029946		108	-100%
1971	112	0.000032631	5	107	-91%
1972	110	0.000034998		110	-100%
1973	139	0.000046074	6	133	-91%
1974	129	0.000042434		129	-100%
1975	143	0.00004736		143	-100%
1976	180	0.000059322		180	-100%
1977	203	0.000063907		203	-100%
1978	210	0.000066165		210	-100%
1979	266	0.000079952	5	261	-96%
1980	284	0.00008245		284	-100%
1981	301	0.00008701		301	-100%
1982	276	0.000078678		276	-100%
1983	274	0.000079114		274	-100%
1984	269	0.000077105		269	-100%
1985	293	0.000082093		293	-100%
1986	306	0.000086026	6	300	-96%
1987	344	0.000095407		344	-100%
1988	394	0.000106629	5	389	-97%
1989	502	0.000130578	7	495	-97%
1990	798	0.000201899	6	792	-98%
1991	1177	0.000302162		1177	-100%
1992	1370	0.000356653	7	1363	-99%
1993	1547	0.000410314	9	1538	-99%
1994	1939	0.000521566	5	1934	-99%
1995	2172	0.000593093	9	2163	-99%
1996	2657	0.000728505	13	2644	-99%
1997	3134	0.000864373	8	3126	-99%
1998	3877	0.001054046	16	3861	-99%
1999	5005	0.001354949	12	4993	-100%
2000	5918	0.001565648	15	5903	-99%
2001	6856	0.001831495	20	6836	-99%
2002	8179	0.002187898	26	8153	-99%
2003	8739	0.002298334	26	8713	-99%
2004	9042	0.002366444	65	8977	-99%
2005	9608	0.00249893	28	9580	-99%
2006	10925	0.002761496	30	10895	-99%
2007	11699	0.002926445	33	11666	-99%
2008	11669	0.002968709	28	11641	-100%
2009	12144	0.003178912	21	12123	-100%
2010	11846	0.003205313	23	11823	-100%
2011	12435	0.003399592	28	12407	-100%
2012	12519	0.003422954	22	12497	-100%
2013	12625	0.003463015	16	12609	-100%
2014	12265	0.003309162	25	12240	-100%
2015	12317	0.003328099	24	12293	-100%
2016	11337	0.003090197	26	11311	-100%
2017	10493	0.002934124	27	10466	-99%
2018	10452	0.002972783	29	10423	-99%
2019	10195	0.002937251	26	10169	-99%
2020	9150	0.002739048	19	9131	-100%
2021	9297	0.002744138	18	9279	-100%
2022	8136	0.00240487	22	8114	-99%
2023	7344	0.00221793	19	7325	-99%
2024	6896	0.002071803	20	6876	-99%

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