girls:
28 births since 1986
#5688 (0th percentile)
boys:
73 births since 1991
#4513 (2nd percentile)
overall:
101 births since 1986
#7638 (1st percentile)
The name Jaqua is the #7,638 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 101 recorded births since 1986. This represents the 1.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,513 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 73 births since 1991. For girls, it ranks #5,688 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1986.
Jaqua first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1986 (1986 for girls and 1991 for boys). Birth data for Jaqua is available in 13 out of the 37 years between 1986 and 2022 (11 years for boys and 4 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 Jaqua has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Jaqua were boys. Interestingly, until around 1992, the name was more popular for girls (76.9% girls from 1986 to 1991), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (89.3% boys from 1992 to 2022).
For boys, Jaqua reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #767) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Jaqua reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #842) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jaqua".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Jaqua. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.0% confident that Jaqua is pronounced as JAHK-wuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jahk-WAH, at 22.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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