girls:
2.7k births since 1889
#3322 (42nd percentile)
boys:
739.6k births since 1880
#46 (99th percentile)
overall:
742.3k births since 1880
#78 (99th percentile)
The name Jack is the #78 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 742,329 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #46 (99.0% percentile) for all time with 739,609 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,322 (41.9% percentile) for all time with 2,720 births since 1889.
Jack has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1889 for girls).
The name Jack has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jack reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 98.9% percentile (ranked #11) with 5,101 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 11,018 births per million (ranked 97.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jack ranks #14 for boys (98.6% percentile) with 4,742 births per million, which is 43.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jack reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 15.0% percentile (ranked #515) with 80 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 80 births per million (ranked 15.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jack ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 9.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jack".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jack. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jack is pronounced as jak, which has 1 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
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Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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