Jackson — #35 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jackson

The Social Security Administration has registered 290,561 babies named Jackson between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jackson currently holds the #35 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 12,609 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jackson performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 116,238 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Jackson shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 23,033 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jackson in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jackson 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 290,561 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.