Jaquetta — girls' name
776 babies named Jaquetta in U.S. Social Security records since 1935, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Jaquetta was born in this single decade.
43 babies were named Jaquetta in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jaquetta
The Social Security Administration has registered 776 babies named Jaquetta between 1935 and 2001, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jaquetta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 43 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jaquetta performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 286 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Jaquetta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by South Carolina and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Jaquetta in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jaquetta 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 776 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.
Jaquetta at a glance
Last recorded 2001Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jaquetta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2001–1935
- Peak year (1990)
- 43
- Annual births at peak — across 67 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2001.
776 total births across 67 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 43 births in a single year.
Jaquetta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 286 births that decade — 37% of Jaquetta's all-time total
Jaquetta decade highlights
- Peak decade 286 births
- Runner-up 190 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Jaquetta's strongest decade
286 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Jaquetta by state
Where Jaquetta concentrates geographically — total births since 1935
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New Jersey | | 15 | 1.9% |
| #2 | South Carolina | | 12 | 1.5% |
| #3 | North Carolina | | 6 | 0.8% |
| #4 | Ohio | | 6 | 0.8% |
| #5 | Georgia | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #6 | Maryland | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #7 | Michigan | | 5 | 0.6% |
15 of 776 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New Jersey 1.9% of nationwide
- South Carolina 1.5% of nationwide
- North Carolina 0.8% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.8% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New Jersey accounts for 1.9% 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, 1935–2001 (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.