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Jacinda

#10,431 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Jacinta

Jacinda has been given to 4,252 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #10,431 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 169 recorded.

Babies named Jacinda, 2025

1 in 368,000

Jacinda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jacinda: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jacinta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jacinda means

Jacinda is a variant of Jacinta.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Probably an alteration of Spanish Jacinta under the influence of the female given name suffix -inda.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Jacinda (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Jacinda is used in English.

Jacinda comes through Spanish Jacinta.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jacinta.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Jacinda is pronounced /d͡ʒəˈsɪndə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,252 girls were recorded with the name Jacinda between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 169 in 1996; its best national rank was #1,091 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,602 in 2020 to #10,431 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,906 in 2015 to #10,431 in 2025.

How common is Jacinda?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,431
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jacinda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jacindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jacinda was born before 1991 — so the typical Jacinda is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,252
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (1,176).

Is Jacinda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−4,566
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+171
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,525
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.3%
Peak was 1996 (169)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,091
1996

Spellings of Jacinda

Jacinda is not the most common spelling — Lucinda is, with 40.6% against Jacinda's 4.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jacinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Jacinda was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 89,376 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Indiana1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jacinda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jacinda around the world

Where Jacinda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2003
    #2,727
    in 2003
  • Canada
    1991–2003
    #2,346
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1966–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jacinda

People whose public names include Jacinda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jacinda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,431
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 171
Best rank ever
#1,091
1996
Peak year
1996
169 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,252
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Jacinda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jacinda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jacinda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jacinda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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