Jacquetta — girls' name
1,705 babies named Jacquetta in U.S. Social Security records since 1916, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
23% of everyone ever named Jacquetta was born in this single decade.
55 babies were named Jacquetta in 1988 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jacquetta
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,705 babies named Jacquetta between 1916 and 2002, spanning 87 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jacquetta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2002. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 55 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jacquetta performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 392 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Jacquetta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 54 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Maryland and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Jacquetta in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jacquetta 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 1,705 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.
Jacquetta at a glance
Last recorded 2002Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jacquetta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2002–1916
- Peak year (1988)
- 55
- Annual births at peak — across 87 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2002.
1,705 total births across 87 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1988 with 55 births in a single year.
Jacquetta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 392 births that decade — 23% of Jacquetta's all-time total
Jacquetta decade highlights
- Peak decade 392 births
- Runner-up 337 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Jacquetta's strongest decade
392 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 23% of all-time use.
Jacquetta by state
Where Jacquetta concentrates geographically — total births since 1916
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | South Carolina | | 54 | 3.2% |
| #2 | Maryland | | 42 | 2.5% |
| #3 | Oklahoma | | 27 | 1.6% |
| #4 | North Carolina | | 24 | 1.4% |
| #5 | Michigan | | 10 | 0.6% |
| #6 | New York | | 6 | 0.4% |
| #7 | Georgia | | 5 | 0.3% |
| #8 | Louisiana | | 5 | 0.3% |
54 of 1,705 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 11 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- South Carolina 3.2% of nationwide
- Maryland 2.5% of nationwide
- Oklahoma 1.6% of nationwide
- North Carolina 1.4% of nationwide
- Michigan 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 11 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
South Carolina accounts for 3.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
Jacquetta appears in 11 states. Explore state details →
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1916–2002 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.