Jahquan — boys' name
296 babies named Jahquan in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
43% of everyone ever named Jahquan was born in this single decade.
22 babies were named Jahquan in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jahquan
The Social Security Administration has registered 296 babies named Jahquan between 1990 and 2019, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jahquan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 22 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jahquan performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 126 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Jahquan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 48 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jahquan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jahquan 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 296 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.
Jahquan at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jahquan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1990
- Peak year (1997)
- 22
- Annual births at peak — across 30 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
296 total births across 30 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 22 births in a single year.
Jahquan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 126 births that decade — 43% of Jahquan's all-time total
Jahquan decade highlights
- Peak decade 126 births
- Runner-up 122 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Jahquan's strongest decade
126 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 43% of all-time use.
Jahquan by state
Where Jahquan concentrates geographically — total births since 1990
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 48 | 16.2% |
48 of 296 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 16.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 16.2% 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, 1990–2019 (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.