Jacqui — girls' name
876 babies named Jacqui in U.S. Social Security records since 1945, with the highest year being 1961. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
28% of everyone ever named Jacqui was born in this single decade.
43 babies were named Jacqui in 1961 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jacqui
The Social Security Administration has registered 876 babies named Jacqui between 1945 and 2016, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jacqui currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 43 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jacqui performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 248 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Jacqui shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Jacqui in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jacqui 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 876 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.
Jacqui at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jacqui popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–1945
- Peak year (1961)
- 43
- Annual births at peak — across 72 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
876 total births across 72 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1961 with 43 births in a single year.
Jacqui popularity over time — boys
13 total births recorded since 1994 (Jacqui as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Jacqui accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Jacqui by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 248 births that decade — 28% of Jacqui's all-time total
Jacqui decade highlights
- Peak decade 248 births
- Runner-up 222 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Jacqui's strongest decade
248 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Jacqui by state
Where Jacqui concentrates geographically — total births since 1945
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 32 | 3.7% |
| #2 | Illinois | | 24 | 2.7% |
| #3 | Ohio | | 6 | 0.7% |
| #4 | Massachusetts | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #5 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 0.6% |
32 of 876 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 3.7% of nationwide
- Illinois 2.7% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.7% of nationwide
- Massachusetts 0.6% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1945–2016 (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.