Jacques
Jacques is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 59 births. Its best rank was 601st, in 1969.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 590.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1969170 births
- Best rank
- #601in 1969
- Since 1888
- 9,894people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,652 boys have been named Jacques in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1969, with 170 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 1990s alone account for 15%. It has spent 56 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 242 girls have also been given it, 2.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jacques | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6 | |
| 1890s | 14 | |
| 1900s | 14 | |
| 1910s | 204 | |
| 1920s | 418 | |
| 1930s | 307 | |
| 1940s | 413 | |
| 1950s | 800 | |
| 1960s | 1,221 | |
| 1970s | 1,307 | |
| 1980s | 1,337 | |
| 1990s | 1,464 | |
| 2000s | 1,081 | |
| 2010s | 768 | |
| 2020s | 298 |
In 1969, its biggest year
Jacques was the 601st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1969 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1969.
Names that rose and fell with Jacques
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Renepeak 1970
- Anthonypeak 1990
- Francoispeak 1992
- Reynaldopeak 1991
- Lavellpeak 1985
- Kennonpeak 2004
- Gilbertopeak 1993
- Philippepeak 1979
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.