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Jack

US babies given the name, 1880–2025, from SSA records

In 2025, 8,748 boys were named Jack: #15 among boys' names that year. The most boys in one year was 12,802, in 1927.

Babies named Jack each year

GirlsBoys
Jack: babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, girls and boys. Peak 1927 with 12,884.03.8k7.5k11.3k15k18801900192019401960198020002020

Both lines are drawn because the SSA files list Jack for girls and for boys; they share one scale, so the smaller line can sit close to the floor. A break in a line is a year under the SSA's 5-birth floor, not a drop to zero.

Babies in 2025Girls 6
Boys 8,748
Rank: boys #15, girls #13,886
Peak year, both sexes192712,884 babies that year (girls + boys)
Peak year by sexGirls 1928: 96
Boys 1927: 12,802
The single year with the most babies of that sex
Highest rank everGirls #723 in 1928
Boys #11 in 2021
Earliest year it reached that rank
All-time recorded births759,677Every listed year, 1880–2025: boys 756,943, girls 2,734
Years listedGirls 126 of 146
Boys 146 of 146
Years with 5 or more babies of that sex

Where it is most popular (2025)

Boys named Jack

Most boys by count: California (702), New York (606) and Texas (579). Listed in 51 of the 51 state files (50 states and DC).

Alaska: 24 boys, 10.6 per 1,000AK10.6Alabama: 114 boys, 5.30 per 1,000AL5.30Arkansas: 70 boys, 5.56 per 1,000AR5.56Arizona: 160 boys, 4.89 per 1,000AZ4.89California: 702 boys, 4.00 per 1,000CA4.00Colorado: 185 boys, 6.89 per 1,000CO6.89Connecticut: 140 boys, 10.6 per 1,000CT10.6District of Columbia: 25 boys, 9.89 per 1,000DC9.89Delaware: 15 boys, 5.09 per 1,000DE5.09Florida: 450 boys, 4.71 per 1,000FL4.71Georgia: 221 boys, 4.40 per 1,000GA4.40Hawaii: 15 boys, 5.14 per 1,000HI5.14Iowa: 100 boys, 7.23 per 1,000IA7.23Idaho: 74 boys, 8.57 per 1,000ID8.57Illinois: 335 boys, 6.76 per 1,000IL6.76Indiana: 186 boys, 5.87 per 1,000IN5.87Kansas: 94 boys, 6.69 per 1,000KS6.69Kentucky: 105 boys, 5.11 per 1,000KY5.11Louisiana: 98 boys, 5.12 per 1,000LA5.12Massachusetts: 319 boys, 11.8 per 1,000MA11.8Maryland: 148 boys, 6.46 per 1,000MD6.46Maine: 44 boys, 11.4 per 1,000ME11.4Michigan: 337 boys, 8.38 per 1,000MI8.38Minnesota: 218 boys, 8.90 per 1,000MN8.90Missouri: 179 boys, 6.44 per 1,000MO6.44Mississippi: 53 boys, 4.89 per 1,000MS4.89Montana: 34 boys, 9.03 per 1,000MT9.03North Carolina: 280 boys, 5.44 per 1,000NC5.44North Dakota: 31 boys, 9.24 per 1,000ND9.24Nebraska: 59 boys, 6.69 per 1,000NE6.69New Hampshire: 65 boys, 14.4 per 1,000NH14.4New Jersey: 333 boys, 8.37 per 1,000NJ8.37New Mexico: 22 boys, 3.38 per 1,000NM3.38Nevada: 49 boys, 4.34 per 1,000NV4.34New York: 606 boys, 7.18 per 1,000NY7.18Ohio: 389 boys, 7.40 per 1,000OH7.40Oklahoma: 85 boys, 4.81 per 1,000OK4.81Oregon: 113 boys, 7.50 per 1,000OR7.50Pennsylvania: 363 boys, 6.95 per 1,000PA6.95Rhode Island: 35 boys, 11.2 per 1,000RI11.2South Carolina: 126 boys, 5.94 per 1,000SC5.94South Dakota: 24 boys, 6.25 per 1,000SD6.25Tennessee: 237 boys, 6.45 per 1,000TN6.45Texas: 579 boys, 3.31 per 1,000TX3.31Utah: 209 boys, 10.6 per 1,000UT10.6Virginia: 221 boys, 5.93 per 1,000VA5.93Vermont: 24 boys, 19.8 per 1,000VT19.8Washington: 216 boys, 6.59 per 1,000WA6.59Wisconsin: 201 boys, 8.58 per 1,000WI8.58West Virginia: 24 boys, 3.90 per 1,000WV3.90Wyoming: 12 boys, 11.0 per 1,000WY11.0

Each tile shows boys named Jack per 1,000 boys in that state. Shading splits the listed states into five equal-sized groups by share, from the lowest (3.31) to the highest (19.8); a dashed tile is fewer than 5 or not listed.

Top 10 states by share, boys named Jack, 2025
#StatePer 1,000 boysBabies
1Vermont19.824
2New Hampshire14.465
3Massachusetts11.8319
4Maine11.444
5Rhode Island11.235
6Wyoming11.012
7Utah10.6209
8Connecticut10.6140
9Alaska10.624
10District of Columbia9.8925

Share is the number of babies of one sex given the name per 1,000 babies of that sex counted in the same state’s 2025 file, so a small state with a strong taste for a name can outrank California; there a few babies move the share a lot, so read it with the count beside it. Source: the SSA state file namesbystate.zip (one file per state, 50 states and DC), Internet Archive capture 20260927185641, data year 2025. A state lists a name only when 5 or more babies of one sex got it there, so “fewer than 5 or not listed” may be 1 to 4 babies or none, each state’s counted total leaves those rarest names out, and the state counts can add up to less than the national count above.

Every year: babies and rank

YearGirlsRankBoysRank
20256#13,8868,748#15
20248#11,5258,472#15
202313#8,2338,715#14
20228#11,6198,936#15
202115#7,4119,568#11
202014#7,7188,945#21
201914#7,8959,404#19
20188#11,8538,894#28
20179#11,0608,477#36
201611#9,6798,430#38
20156#15,2478,514#40
20149#11,3508,753#41
20137#13,7398,577#40
201210#10,7507,941#46
20115#17,8598,185#45
20107#14,0568,520#45
200914#8,6219,029#42
200815#8,2809,897#39
200716#7,87410,671#38
200621#6,21710,837#36
200511#9,71410,906#34
200427#4,8599,580#42
200314#7,7379,318#45
200213#8,0049,000#44
200111#8,9888,149#48
20007#12,3038,125#46
19999#9,8057,385#52
199811#8,2146,376#61
19977#11,2894,984#76
19966#12,4194,245#89
19955#14,2903,448#110
19945#14,2522,781#127
1993under 5 or none—2,425#143
19928#9,8222,070#155
19919#8,8731,949#166
1990under 5 or none—1,838#166
19897#10,1051,716#179
198812#6,4161,655#171
198717#4,7321,656#164
19866#9,9981,522#175
198512#5,7891,523#176
19848#7,6491,483#173
198319#4,0061,526#172
198214#5,0311,620#166
19818#7,6531,616#166
198013#5,3401,627#158
197917#4,2981,582#161
197817#4,1391,579#156
197715#4,5031,672#149
197614#4,4421,662#149
19757#7,4431,742#142
19748#6,4621,648#149
197310#5,3151,850#138
197217#3,6161,899#142
197111#4,9212,364#132
197016#3,7712,564#129
196917#3,3712,606#122
196813#3,8672,692#110
196713#3,7322,782#112
19669#4,6332,964#107
196522#2,6283,199#104
196413#3,7693,809#99
196314#3,5163,814#102
196214#3,4904,170#99
196117#3,1054,639#90
196015#3,2664,918#85
195916#3,0275,015#85
195812#3,6195,301#80
195714#3,2036,024#67
195614#3,2356,051#66
195516#2,8856,200#60
195419#2,5486,475#57
195315#2,8656,540#57
19529#3,9376,937#52
195118#2,4207,004#48
195015#2,7116,840#48
194921#2,1707,128#47
194814#2,7537,612#43
194723#2,0628,507#37
194621#2,0527,801#35
194518#2,0156,857#32
194421#1,8837,253#30
194325#1,7217,398#34
194223#1,7807,365#34
194124#1,6276,950#32
194020#1,8137,048#29
193932#1,3167,306#26
193838#1,1918,144#25
193726#1,4718,194#23
193621#1,6618,857#20
193540#1,1079,438#18
193443#1,0649,985#17
193353#9429,838#17
193251#99210,716#17
193185#72911,488#15
193088#74812,430#14
192981#77812,167#14
192896#72312,494#15
192782#80712,802#16
192684#79312,195#16
192595#76312,011#17
192475#86511,921#17
192361#94411,190#17
192265#91210,847#18
192159#96510,757#18
192060#9429,599#20
191955#9608,263#21
191840#1,1958,341#21
191750#9916,875#22
191643#1,0746,161#26
191537#1,1295,749#27
191422#1,3584,485#27
191319#1,3303,538#28
191220#1,1952,870#28
191110#1,5931,668#25
191015#1,1851,576#23
1909under 5 or none—1,150#27
19086#1,9671,086#27
19076#1,9341,019#26
19066#1,833880#30
19056#1,800907#28
19048#1,417908#27
1903under 5 or none—831#28
190210#1,169743#32
1901under 5 or none—645#32
19005#2,0641,053#27
18998#1,229582#35
1898under 5 or none—633#37
1897under 5 or none—497#42
18965#1,699539#40
18956#1,499479#46
1894under 5 or none—441#47
1893under 5 or none—405#50
1892under 5 or none—401#54
1891under 5 or none—290#62
18905#1,418368#53
18895#1,377322#61
1888under 5 or none—329#64
1887under 5 or none—251#68
1886under 5 or none—299#64
1885under 5 or none—295#61
1884under 5 or none—274#68
1883under 5 or none—242#65
1882under 5 or none—271#66
1881under 5 or none—197#73
1880under 5 or none—204#77

Rank among all names of that sex in that year, by the SSA's rule. “under 5 or none” is a year the SSA file does not list: fewer than 5 babies of that sex, possibly none.

Rank in each decade

DecadeGirlsBoys
2020–2025 (so far)#9,247#14
2010s#11,273#40
2000s#7,667#40
1990s#11,254#100
1980s#6,005#167
1970s#4,583#146
1960s#3,422#102
1950s#2,978#60
1940s#1,947#35
1930s#1,033#18
1920s#846#17
1910s#1,123#23
1900s#1,812#29
1890s#1,774#44
1880s#1,911#66

Rank among all names of that sex by births summed over the decade.

Years under the floor

Girls: under 5 or none in 1880–1888, 1891–1894, 1897–1898, 1901, 1903, 1909, 1990, 1993.

Boys: listed in every year, 1880–2025.

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About this page

Why this name has its own page

These pages are the 19 girls' and 19 boys' names given to the most babies in 2025, the newest year in the SSA file this site is built from. The build picks them from that year's file each time it runs — most births first, ties in alphabetical order, the SSA's own ranking rule — so a new SSA year can change the list. All 38 are on the list of name pages; any other name is on the front page lookup.

Where every number comes from

US Social Security Administration, "Beyond the Top 1000 Names" national data (names.zip): one text file per year of birth, 1880 to 2025, each line a name, a sex and a number of babies. The SSA address is www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/names.zip; ssa.gov refuses requests from this site's build server, so the file was taken from the Internet Archive's copy of that address, captured 2026-09-28 (14:33 UTC) and fetched 2026-09-30: web.archive.org/web/20260928143357id_/www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/names.zip. SHA-256 cd78e975ed7bb358e018dd62fbe14ced89295e9581c49172ca4eedcb011b3724.

The SSA lists a name for a sex in a year only when at least 5 babies got it, so every total here adds up the listed years only and is a floor on the true number. The file covers people with a Social Security number, so early decades count people who applied for one later in life. Spellings are separate names: this page counts “Jack” exactly as spelled.