Jacqui
Jacqui was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 888 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacqui by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jacqui mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jacqui is “a diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jacqui?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,282, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1961, the peak
Jacqui peaked in 1961, when 43 girls were given it, #1,752 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #17,282 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,186 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,726 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,253 | 2.6 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,459 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,410 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,133 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,320 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,048 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,447 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 8 | #9,911 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,799 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,922 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,797 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,695 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,246 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,709 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,065 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,453 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,929 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,331 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,814 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,469 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,975 | 17.7 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,468 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,590 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,702 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,518 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,039 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,726 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,680 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,758 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,841 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,166 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,409 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,771 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,793 | 13.6 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,001 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,131 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,970 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,961 | 19.8 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,266 | 15.3 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,906 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,332 | 13.7 |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,752 | 21.3 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,027 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,319 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,606 | 9.9 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,351 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,564 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,911 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,392 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,376 | 4.3 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,966 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,572 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,018 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,135 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,255 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,503 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacqui a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 888 Americans recorded as Jacqui, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jacqui: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacqui, and how old are they?
An estimated 809 Americans named Jacqui and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 39 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,854 people named Jacqui (1,799 women and girls, 55 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 832 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 187,666 babies since 1880, Jacqui is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 169 babies recorded by SSA was a Jacqui (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 Jacqui
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 Jacqui and names like it
- Compare Jacqui and JackieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJacqui peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jacqui since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Jacqui.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jacqui alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.