Jacinda
Jacinda was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,431 among girls’ names; 4,252 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,110 Americans named Jacinda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 26 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacinda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jacinda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jacinda is “a female given name.”
Probably an alteration of Spanish Jacinta under the influence of the female given name suffix -inda.
/d͡ʒəˈsɪndə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jacinda?
#10,431 among girls’ names, 2025
Jacinda fell from #4,906 in 2015 to #10,431 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 5.6 per million.
169 babies in 1996, the peak
Jacinda peaked in 1996, when 169 girls were given it, #1,091 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,431 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,865 | 13.0 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,767 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,099 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,786 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,602 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,683 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,916 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,993 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,520 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,906 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,554 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,941 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,670 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,492 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,774 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,318 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,094 | 29.1 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,526 | 38.5 |
| 2006 | 85 | #2,255 | 44.7 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,646 | 34.6 |
| 2004 | 67 | #2,509 | 36.5 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,209 | 42.7 |
| 2002 | 107 | #1,712 | 59.5 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,941 | 49.4 |
| 2000 | 101 | #1,728 | 55.6 |
| 1999 | 125 | #1,408 | 70.5 |
| 1998 | 131 | #1,341 | 74.1 |
| 1997 | 139 | #1,267 | 79.9 |
| 1996 | 169 | #1,091 | 96.4 |
| 1995 | 121 | #1,359 | 68.8 |
| 1994 | 79 | #1,811 | 44.2 |
| 1993 | 105 | #1,502 | 58.0 |
| 1992 | 114 | #1,423 | 61.8 |
| 1991 | 105 | #1,490 | 56.0 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,672 | 46.4 |
| 1989 | 88 | #1,587 | 47.7 |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,621 | 44.9 |
| 1987 | 91 | #1,436 | 52.3 |
| 1986 | 93 | #1,382 | 54.2 |
| 1985 | 82 | #1,498 | 47.7 |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,518 | 44.5 |
| 1983 | 84 | #1,405 | 50.3 |
| 1982 | 71 | #1,626 | 41.9 |
| 1981 | 87 | #1,409 | 52.2 |
| 1980 | 71 | #1,626 | 42.8 |
| 1979 | 89 | #1,381 | 55.4 |
| 1978 | 84 | #1,391 | 54.8 |
| 1977 | 80 | #1,407 | 52.2 |
| 1976 | 59 | #1,666 | 40.3 |
| 1975 | 83 | #1,319 | 56.9 |
| 1974 | 94 | #1,189 | 64.1 |
| 1973 | 90 | #1,194 | 61.7 |
| 1972 | 87 | #1,221 | 57.2 |
| 1971 | 93 | #1,215 | 55.9 |
| 1970 | 63 | #1,549 | 36.0 |
| 1969 | 63 | #1,485 | 37.3 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,657 | 29.9 |
| 1967 | 54 | #1,528 | 32.7 |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,778 | 24.2 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,130 | 17.6 |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,049 | 17.9 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,033 | 17.6 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,669 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacinda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jacinda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jacinda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacinda, and how old are they?
4,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,252 Americans ever recorded as Jacinda. The median Jacinda alive today is 34 years old; half are between 26 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 3,578 people named Jacinda (3,572 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,063 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 67 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,060 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 230 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jacinda born?
The states with the most babies named Jacinda are California, Texas and New York, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 378 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 253 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 111 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 99 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 91 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 79 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 74 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 73 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 41 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jacinda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,401 babies since 1880, Jacinda is the most given (97% 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 Jacinda
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 Jacinda and names like it
- Compare Jacinda and JacyndaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJacinda peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jacinda since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Jacinda.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jacinda alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.