girls:
242 births since 1962
#5474 (4th percentile)
boys:
9.6k births since 1888
#1199 (74th percentile)
overall:
9.8k births since 1888
#2699 (65th percentile)
The name Jacques is the #2,699 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,833 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 65.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,199 (73.9% percentile) for all time with 9,591 births since 1888. For girls, it ranks #5,474 (4.2% percentile) for all time with 242 births since 1962.
Jacques first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (1888 for boys and 1962 for girls). Birth data for Jacques is available in 118 out of the 136 years between 1888 and 2023 (118 years for boys and 27 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jacques has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jacques reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 23.8% percentile (ranked #503) with 93 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 98 births per million (ranked 23.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jacques ranks #862 for boys (5.4% percentile) with 29 births per million, which is 30.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jacques reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #786) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jacques".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Jacques. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.4% confident that Jacques is pronounced as zhahk, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jahk, at 18.9% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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