boys:
864 births since 1990
#3723 (19th percentile)
overall:
864 births since 1990
#6875 (11th percentile)
The name Jakson is the #6,875 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 864 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 11.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,723 (18.8% percentile) for all time with 864 births since 1990.
Jakson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (first recorded for boys in 1990). Birth data for Jakson is available in 30 out of the 34 years between 1990 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Jakson reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 5.9% percentile (ranked #829) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 28 births per million (ranked 5.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jakson ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 29.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jakson".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jakson is pronounced as JAK-suhn, which has 2 syllables.
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