Jagger
Jagger was given to 269 boys in 2025, #885 among boys’ names; 8,448 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,350 Americans named Jagger and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jagger by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jagger mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jagger is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “peddler” (jagger).
Occupational surname from Yorkshire, jagger (“peddler”). The modern given name use is partly after Mick Jagger.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jagger?
#885 among boys’ names, 2025
Jagger fell from #658 in 2015 to #885 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.21 to 0.16 per 1,000.
483 babies in 2012, the peak
Jagger peaked in 2012, when 483 babies were given it (469 boys, #556 among boys’ names). The 269 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 269 | #885 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 286 | #849 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 282 | #855 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 324 | #781 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 324 | #772 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 345 | #720 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 395 | #666 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 333 | #720 | 0.18 |
| 2017 | 387 | #660 | 0.21 |
| 2016 | 436 | #618 | 0.23 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 393 | #658 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 344 | #707 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 345 | #695 | 0.18 |
| 2012 | 469 | #556 | 0.25 |
| 2011 | 363 | #647 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 294 | #763 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 298 | #763 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 208 | #964 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 202 | #974 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 157 | #1,114 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 158 | #1,049 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 165 | #1,002 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 229 | #769 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 288 | #652 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 277 | #661 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,391 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 92 | #1,311 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,360 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 60 | #1,657 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 67 | #1,501 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 51 | #1,738 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 91 | #1,203 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 105 | #1,090 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,386 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,649 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jagger a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,448 Americans recorded as Jagger, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 269 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jagger: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jagger, and how old are they?
8,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,448 Americans ever recorded as Jagger. The median Jagger alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 5,953 people named Jagger (165 women and girls, 5,788 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,581 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 327 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,600 |
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 Jagger born?
The states with the most babies named Jagger are Texas, California and Oklahoma, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 36 | #758 | 1.0× |
| California | 21 | #1,024 | 0.8× |
| Oklahoma | 16 | #303 | 2.8× |
| Ohio | 13 | #689 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,088 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 12 | #575 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 9 | #798 | 1.0× |
| Arkansas | 9 | #372 | 3.0× |
| Alabama | 9 | #546 | 1.2× |
| Missouri | 8 | #679 | 1.0× |
Where Jagger is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jagger is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1991 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Jagger 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 10,367 babies since 1880, Jagger is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 269 of their 300 babies (90%), again the most given.
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 Jagger
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 Jagger and names like it
- Compare Jagger and JaegerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJagger peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jagger since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Jagger: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Jagger.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jagger alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.