Jack — #15 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jack

The Social Security Administration has registered 748,131 babies named Jack between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jack currently holds the #15 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1927, when 12,802 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jack performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 115,983 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Jack shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 61,360 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jack in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jack in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 748,131 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.