Meaning not yet researched.
Jacen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,072 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,072 in 2013; #3,695 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jacen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,695 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #1,072.
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Jacen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,072 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 175 (2013).
In 2025, 30 US boys were named Jacen, making it the 3,695th most common boys’ name of the year, down 968 places from #2,727 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 48 boys named Jacen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,072, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 175. For comparison, it was #1,457 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jacen in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 2,480 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,157 babies named Jacen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 645 US boys were named Jacen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 125. In 2025 that was about 1 in 56,936 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jason (1,057,058 babies since 1880), Jayceon (13,580 babies since 1880), Jasen (4,659 babies since 1880) and Jaysen (3,049 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jacian and Jacine are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jacian (73), Jacine (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jacen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 30 | #3,695 |
| 2024 | — | — | 48 | #2,727 |
| 2023 | — | — | 46 | #2,779 |
| 2022 | — | — | 39 | #3,127 |
| 2021 | — | — | 52 | #2,537 |
| 2020 | — | — | 63 | #2,197 |
| 2019 | — | — | 62 | #2,243 |
| 2018 | — | — | 90 | #1,727 |
| 2017 | — | — | 90 | #1,729 |
| 2016 | — | — | 125 | #1,407 |
| 2015 | — | — | 116 | #1,457 |
| 2014 | — | — | 148 | #1,230 |
| 2013 | — | — | 175 | #1,072 |
| 2012 | — | — | 118 | #1,410 |
| 2011 | — | — | 127 | #1,336 |
| 2010 | — | — | 106 | #1,530 |
| 2009 | — | — | 94 | #1,677 |
| 2008 | — | — | 98 | #1,605 |
| 2007 | — | — | 102 | #1,543 |
| 2006 | — | — | 86 | #1,658 |
| 2005 | — | — | 57 | #2,145 |
| 2004 | — | — | 59 | #2,036 |
| 2003 | — | — | 65 | #1,824 |
| 2002 | — | — | 56 | #1,986 |
| 2001 | — | — | 42 | #2,362 |
| 2000 | — | — | 52 | #1,979 |
| 1999 | — | — | 31 | #2,752 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,416 |
| 1997 | — | — | 31 | #2,573 |
| 1996 | — | — | 29 | #2,633 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,363 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,635 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #5,944 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,171 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,723 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,749 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,715 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,257 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,471 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,138 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #5,950 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,493 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,714 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,052 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,747 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #3,969 |
| 1976 | — | — | 10 | #3,586 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,067 |
| 1974 | — | — | 14 | #2,725 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,312 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,774 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,147 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,463 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).