Jacki
Jacki was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 3,523 Americans have been recorded with it between 1935 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,040 Americans named Jacki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 49 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jacki mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jacki is “a diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline or Jacquelyn.”
Variant of Jackie or Jacky.
/ˈd͡ʒæki/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jacki?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,257, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
166 babies in 1961, the peak
Jacki peaked in 1961, when 166 girls were given it, #817 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,257 | 3.1 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,289 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,566 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,131 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,840 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,443 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,616 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,784 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,450 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,713 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 30 | #3,605 | 16.3 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,548 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,741 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,886 | 20.6 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,816 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,867 | 19.6 |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,085 | 29.7 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,371 | 24.4 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,487 | 22.6 |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,737 | 37.1 |
| 1982 | 57 | #1,881 | 33.7 |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,943 | 33.0 |
| 1980 | 48 | #2,135 | 28.9 |
| 1979 | 49 | #2,061 | 30.5 |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,022 | 30.7 |
| 1977 | 48 | #2,008 | 31.3 |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,645 | 41.0 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,814 | 35.0 |
| 1974 | 56 | #1,657 | 38.2 |
| 1973 | 89 | #1,205 | 61.0 |
| 1972 | 64 | #1,491 | 42.1 |
| 1971 | 77 | #1,381 | 46.3 |
| 1970 | 102 | #1,140 | 58.3 |
| 1969 | 90 | #1,178 | 53.3 |
| 1968 | 95 | #1,094 | 57.9 |
| 1967 | 102 | #1,021 | 61.8 |
| 1966 | 103 | #1,019 | 60.9 |
| 1965 | 103 | #1,027 | 58.4 |
| 1964 | 121 | #959 | 63.9 |
| 1963 | 102 | #1,069 | 52.9 |
| 1962 | 139 | #898 | 70.7 |
| 1961 | 166 | #817 | 82.2 |
| 1960 | 138 | #896 | 68.3 |
| 1959 | 116 | #983 | 57.3 |
| 1958 | 148 | #838 | 73.6 |
| 1957 | 120 | #939 | 58.7 |
| 1956 | 89 | #1,096 | 44.3 |
| 1955 | 69 | #1,212 | 35.3 |
| 1954 | 78 | #1,117 | 40.2 |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,351 | 27.6 |
| 1952 | 55 | #1,290 | 29.7 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,935 | 14.4 |
| 1950 | 32 | #1,659 | 18.7 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,980 | 14.0 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,527 | 21.8 |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,367 | 25.9 |
| 1946 | 40 | #1,381 | 25.5 |
| 1945 | 29 | #1,529 | 22.2 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,629 | 19.6 |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,721 | 17.9 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,146 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,107 | 7.4 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,267 | 7.3 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,495 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,963 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jacki has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 66 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jacki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacki, and how old are they?
3,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 3,523 Americans ever recorded as Jacki. The median Jacki alive today is 60 years old; half are between 49 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 4,002 people named Jacki (3,893 women and girls, 109 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,182 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jacki rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 62 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,290 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,090 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 545 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 48 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Jacki born?
The states with the most babies named Jacki are California, Ohio and New York, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 262 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 149 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 110 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 109 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 98 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Minnesota | 83 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 83 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 71 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 66 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 56 | 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 Jacki 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 199,288 babies since 1880, Jacki is the sixth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 392 babies recorded by SSA was a Jacki (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 Jacki
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 Jacki and names like it
- Compare Jacki and JackieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJacki peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jacki since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Jacki.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jacki alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.