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Jacki

Girls' name

Heel, through Jacqueline

Jacki has been given to 3,523 babies in the U.S. since 1935. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1961, with 166 recorded.

Babies named Jacki, 2024

1 in 669,000

Jacki over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jacki: meaning, origin, and history

Heel, through Jacqueline

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jacki means

Jacki belongs to the name family reached through Jacki → Jacqueline. Its meaning is “heel”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jacki is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jackie and Jacqueline.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Jacki is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒæki/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,518 girls were recorded with the name Jacki between 1935 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 166 in 1961; its best national rank was #817 in 1961.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Jacki between 2007 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2007; its best national rank was #13,132 in 2007.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jacki?

Jacki had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jacki 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jackis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jacki was born before 1965 — so the typical Jacki is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
32.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.77%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,246
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 32.9% of all recorded uses (1,159).

Is Jacki 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1961 (166)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#817
1961

Spellings of Jacki

Jacki is not the most common spelling — Vicki is, with 41.3% against Jacki's 0.95%.

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 Jacki is used

Across 1910–2025, Jacki was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 80,064 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 33,333
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Indiana1 in 50,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 50,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Iowa1 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. Jacki has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jacki around the world

Where Jacki 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.

  • South Australia
    1967–1998
    #710
    in 1998

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jacki

People whose public names include Jacki, 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.

Jacki in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jacki. Linked forms have their own page here.

JackyJackieJacqui

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jacki by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#817
1961
Peak year
1961
166 that year
First recorded
1935
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,518
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,132
2007
Peak year
2007
5 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jacki

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

JacieJacyJaceeJaceyJackJackyJaciRickiJacintaJacelynJacobJacindaJaclynnJaceJacqueJackelynJacklynnMickiBeckiJacksonNickiJacklynJacalynJackelin

Names with a curve like Jacki

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

CyndiCherriSherieLanetteDeedeeJaneneLorindaLeesaDeeannMartiKandyLissa

Sibling names for Jacki

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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