Jacarra
Jacarra was last recorded in 2008, when 6 babies were given it; 95 Americans have been recorded with it between 1988 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacarra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jacarra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,182, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1998, the peak
Jacarra peaked in 1998, when 21 girls were given it, #5,020 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #16,182 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,253 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,296 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,020 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,286 | 8.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,362 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,008 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,655 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,584 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,098 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #12,493 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacarra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jacarra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jacarra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacarra, and how old are they?
An estimated 93 Americans named Jacarra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 130 people named Jacarra (127 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 94 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Jacarra?
Jacarra is a less common spelling of Jakara: SSA has recorded 95 Jacarra and 471 Jakara since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,598 babies since 1880, Jacarra is the sixth most given (5.9% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jacarra
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jacarra and names like it
- Compare Jacarra and JakaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJacarra peaked in 1998.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Jacarra.
- Names starting with JMost given first.