Jackey
Jackey was last recorded in 2007, when 7 babies were given it; 726 Americans have been recorded with it between 1930 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jackey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jackey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jackey is “a nickname used instead of the male given name Jack, Jacques (and its cognates) or John.”
From Jack + -ey.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jackey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,188, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1956, the peak
Jackey peaked in 1956, when 31 boys were given it, #1,401 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | #10,188 | 3.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,365 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,906 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,597 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,617 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,382 | 2.6 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,653 | 2.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,032 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,154 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,395 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 9 | #4,300 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,171 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,052 | 4.1 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,347 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,212 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,765 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,879 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,754 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,234 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,043 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,791 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,174 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,391 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,194 | 8.0 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,277 | 7.3 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,311 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,255 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 17 | #2,000 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 22 | #1,729 | 10.6 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,281 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 26 | #1,602 | 12.2 |
| 1959 | 20 | #1,834 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,614 | 11.3 |
| 1957 | 23 | #1,696 | 10.7 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,401 | 14.7 |
| 1955 | 18 | #1,874 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,076 | 7.4 |
| 1953 | 21 | #1,687 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,897 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 19 | #1,751 | 10.1 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,845 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 21 | #1,640 | 11.8 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,381 | 6.3 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,113 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 19 | #1,669 | 11.7 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,054 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,847 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,840 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,199 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,262 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,244 | 9.5 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,754 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,778 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,341 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,107 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,132 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,455 | 6.1 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,792 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jackey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 726 Americans recorded as Jackey, 6% are girls and 94% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jackey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jackey, and how old are they?
An estimated 495 Americans named Jackey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 54 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 682 people named Jackey (220 women and girls, 462 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 553 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 401,866 babies since 1880, Jackey is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,932 babies recorded by SSA was a Jackey (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jackey
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 Jackey and names like it
- Compare Jackey and JackieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJackey peaked in 1956.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jackey since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Jackey.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jackey alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.