Jack
Jack is ranked 15th among boys in 2024 (8,434 births). Its best rank was 11th, in 2021.
- Rank in 2024
- #15down 1 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8,4340.49% of boys
- Peak year
- 192712,802 births
- Best rank
- #11in 2021
- Since 1880
- 750,859people given the name
The story in the numbers
748,131 boys have been named Jack in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 12,802 births — 1.1% of all boys recorded that year.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 113 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,728 girls have also been given it, 0.36% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jack | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,684 | |
| 1890s | 4,635 | |
| 1900s | 9,222 | |
| 1910s | 49,526 | |
| 1920s | 115,983 | |
| 1930s | 96,397 | |
| 1940s | 73,920 | |
| 1950s | 62,385 | |
| 1960s | 35,590 | |
| 1970s | 18,570 | |
| 1980s | 15,942 | |
| 1990s | 37,502 | |
| 2000s | 95,508 | |
| 2010s | 85,688 | |
| 2020s | 44,579 |
In 1927, its biggest year
Jack was the 16th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1927 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1927.
Names that rose and fell with Jack
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lelandpeak 2007
- Harlanpeak 1924
- Conleypeak 2011
- Coypeak 1926
- Ardenpeak 2024
- Leeroypeak 1927
- Elvinpeak 1927
- Hollispeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.