Meaning not yet researched.
Jacques: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 80 in 2025. Its best rank was #601 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #601 in 1969; #1,938 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jacques in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,938 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #601.
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Jacques: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 80 boys in 2025. Peak: #601 in 1969 · most boys in one year: 170 (1969).
In 2025, 80 US boys were named Jacques, making it the 1,938th most common boys’ name of the year, up 446 places from #2,384 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 59 boys named Jacques in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #601, reached in 1969. That year also had the most boys given the name: 170. For comparison, it was #1,724 in 2015 and #911 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jacques in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 6 babies. In all, 9,977 US babies have been given the name, 2.4% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,534 babies named Jacques.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 663 US boys were named Jacques; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 80. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,351 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jacques ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #553 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include James (5,274,520 babies since 1880), Jacob (990,532 babies since 1880), Jack (759,677 babies since 1880) and Jim (153,938 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jaques, Jaquis and Jacquese 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: Jaques (306), Jaquis (257), Jacquese (246), Jacquees (180), Jahquez (141), Jacquise (120), Jaquese (110), Jacquis (87), Jacqueze (5), Jaiquez (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 Jacques in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 8 | #553 | #559 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,152 | #1,794 |
| California | 10 | #1,638 | #1,574 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,815 | #2,229 |
| New York | 5 | #1,868 | #1,405 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 80 | #1,938 |
| 2024 | — | — | 59 | #2,384 |
| 2023 | — | — | 56 | #2,424 |
| 2022 | — | — | 54 | #2,533 |
| 2021 | — | — | 62 | #2,261 |
| 2020 | — | — | 68 | #2,079 |
| 2019 | — | — | 67 | #2,141 |
| 2018 | — | — | 78 | #1,907 |
| 2017 | — | — | 67 | #2,077 |
| 2016 | — | — | 72 | #1,998 |
| 2015 | — | — | 90 | #1,724 |
| 2014 | — | — | 70 | #2,028 |
| 2013 | — | — | 73 | #1,923 |
| 2012 | — | — | 72 | #1,970 |
| 2011 | — | — | 88 | #1,694 |
| 2010 | — | — | 92 | #1,680 |
| 2009 | — | — | 89 | #1,737 |
| 2008 | — | — | 105 | #1,540 |
| 2007 | — | — | 90 | #1,689 |
| 2006 | — | — | 102 | #1,495 |
| 2005 | — | — | 103 | #1,437 |
| 2004 | — | — | 98 | #1,436 |
| 2003 | — | — | 110 | #1,287 |
| 2002 | — | — | 124 | #1,148 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,321 | 131 | #1,091 |
| 2000 | — | — | 129 | #1,093 |
| 1999 | — | — | 123 | #1,089 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,052 | 157 | #914 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,680 | 156 | #888 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,427 | 138 | #943 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,356 | 149 | #900 |
| 1994 | — | — | 135 | #950 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,018 | 151 | #862 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,824 | 139 | #896 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,367 | 154 | #833 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,141 | 162 | #797 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,943 | 136 | #863 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,513 | 146 | #781 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,930 | 137 | #790 |
| 1986 | — | — | 125 | #808 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,833 | 144 | #737 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,656 | 130 | #760 |
| 1983 | — | — | 114 | #820 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,651 | 121 | #805 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,657 | 138 | #742 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,478 | 146 | #726 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,916 | 126 | #774 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,938 | 108 | #822 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,197 | 108 | #820 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,239 | 105 | #816 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,598 | 116 | #770 |
| 1974 | — | — | 123 | #734 |
| 1973 | — | — | 158 | #631 |
| 1972 | — | — | 155 | #636 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,226 | 154 | #666 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,598 | 154 | #661 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,945 | 170 | #601 |
| 1968 | — | — | 135 | #650 |
| 1967 | — | — | 101 | #732 |
| 1966 | — | — | 108 | #714 |
| 1965 | — | — | 126 | #662 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,299 | 108 | #741 |
| 1963 | — | — | 139 | #663 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,034 | 100 | #767 |
| 1961 | — | — | 126 | #682 |
| 1960 | — | — | 108 | #743 |
| 1959 | — | — | 106 | #745 |
| 1958 | — | — | 78 | #859 |
| 1957 | — | — | 98 | #761 |
| 1956 | — | — | 72 | #882 |
| 1955 | — | — | 89 | #776 |
| 1954 | — | — | 85 | #777 |
| 1953 | — | — | 79 | #810 |
| 1952 | — | — | 63 | #891 |
| 1951 | — | — | 73 | #824 |
| 1950 | — | — | 57 | #911 |
| 1949 | — | — | 56 | #929 |
| 1948 | — | — | 51 | #980 |
| 1947 | — | — | 67 | #848 |
| 1946 | — | — | 44 | #1,036 |
| 1945 | — | — | 37 | #1,066 |
| 1944 | — | — | 34 | #1,144 |
| 1943 | — | — | 31 | #1,248 |
| 1942 | — | — | 33 | #1,222 |
| 1941 | — | — | 20 | #1,554 |
| 1940 | — | — | 40 | #1,026 |
| 1939 | — | — | 28 | #1,253 |
| 1938 | — | — | 31 | #1,183 |
| 1937 | — | — | 30 | #1,219 |
| 1936 | — | — | 21 | #1,485 |
| 1935 | — | — | 29 | #1,261 |
| 1934 | — | — | 31 | #1,201 |
| 1933 | — | — | 34 | #1,136 |
| 1932 | — | — | 28 | #1,307 |
| 1931 | — | — | 38 | #1,108 |
| 1930 | — | — | 37 | #1,162 |
| 1929 | — | — | 33 | #1,229 |
| 1928 | — | — | 37 | #1,177 |
| 1927 | — | — | 42 | #1,104 |
| 1926 | — | — | 33 | #1,269 |
| 1925 | — | — | 42 | #1,082 |
| 1924 | — | — | 52 | #981 |
| 1923 | — | — | 46 | #1,050 |
| 1922 | — | — | 44 | #1,065 |
| 1921 | — | — | 43 | #1,079 |
| 1920 | — | — | 46 | #1,025 |
| 1919 | — | — | 38 | #1,134 |
| 1918 | — | — | 38 | #1,119 |
| 1917 | — | — | 23 | #1,505 |
| 1916 | — | — | 22 | #1,531 |
| 1915 | — | — | 26 | #1,323 |
| 1914 | — | — | 20 | #1,366 |
| 1913 | — | — | 12 | #1,630 |
| 1912 | — | — | 15 | #1,244 |
| 1911 | — | — | 10 | #1,159 |
| 1905 | — | — | 6 | #1,168 |
| 1900 | — | — | 8 | #1,004 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #937 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #933 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #981 |
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).