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Jack
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒæk/
Rank in 2024
#15
Born in 2024
8,434
Peak year
1927 · #16
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:8 in 2024 (#11,709)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 8,434 boys were named Jack, about 1 in every 203.
- It peaked in 1927 with 12,802 babies, ranked #16.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 748,131 boys have been named Jack since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Jack per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 8.9Greatest1901–27
- 7.9Silent1928–45
- 3.1Boomers1946–64
- 1.3Gen X1965–80
- 1.1Millennials1981–96
- 4.4Gen Z1997–12
- 4.9Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 149,017 babies, 8.91 per 1,000. Silent: 163,929 babies, 7.94 per 1,000. Boomers: 114,782 babies, 3.06 per 1,000. Gen X: 34,439 babies, 1.27 per 1,000. Millennials: 33,071 babies, 1.09 per 1,000. Gen Z: 138,898 babies, 4.42 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 105,623 babies, 4.86 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Jak, Jakke (also Jackin, Jankyn, etc.), from Anglo-Norman Jakke, *Janke, from Middle Dutch Janke, diminutive of Jan (“John”); equivalent to John + -kin. Doublet of Yankee. It can be also used as nickname for Jacob. Though the name was originally a pet form, it has become more of an independent name. See also Middle French Hennequin, Jannequin, Middle Dutch Janneken, English Jake and Jacques.
- A unisex given name derived from a pet form of the name John. Occasionally a diminutive of other given names such as Jackson, Jacob, Jacqueline or Jonathan.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈd͡ʒæk/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Jack, CC BY-SA 4.0.