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Jacques

#1,938 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Iacobus

Jacques has been given to 9,977 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #1,938 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1969, with 170 recorded.

Babies named Jacques, 2025

1 in 41,400

Jacques over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jacques: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Iacobus

Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, French and Latin

What Jacques means

Jacques is a form of Iacobus.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jacques → Iacobus. The family’s meaning is “heel of the foot”, recorded in Latin with the source elements ‘āqḗḇ.

Origin, language, and formation

Jacques is used in English, French and Norman. Its origins include Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, French and Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Iacobus, Jacob and James.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Jacques is pronounced /ʒæk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,734 boys were recorded with the name Jacques between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 170 in 1969; its best national rank was #601 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,079 in 2020 to #1,938 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,724 in 2015 to #1,938 in 2025.

In the United States, 243 girls were recorded with the name Jacques between 1962 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1988; its best national rank was #3,508 in 1988.

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 Jacques?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 41,400
80 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 21,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,938
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,725 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jacques sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,725 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacques. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jacquess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jacques was born before 1981 — so the typical Jacques is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
15.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,358
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 15.0% of all recorded uses (1,464).

Is Jacques 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
+446
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+141
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−214
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.1%
Peak was 1969 (170)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#601
1969

Spellings of Jacques

Jacques is the most-used spelling, taking 40.4% of the 24,114 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Jacques is used

Across 1910–2025, Jacques was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 4,167 boys, against 1 in 26,884 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

024 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 4,167
  2. 2Florida1 in 11,111
  3. 3New York1 in 11,111
  4. 4Georgia1 in 16,667
  5. 5California1 in 20,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 20,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in 33,333
  8. 8District of Columbia1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Jacques has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jacques around the world

Where Jacques 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
    1996–2025
    #735
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1996–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–2025
    #395
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1992–2024
    #582
    in 2024
  • France
    1900–2025
    #322
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Jacques

People whose public names include Jacques, 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.

Jacques in other languages

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

JimJackJacoDiegoJacobJakabJakobJakubJamesYacobYakovYakubJacoboJacopoJaquesSeamusThiagoYaacovGiacomoJacobusSantiagoJacóJaccoJakes

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

Jacques by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,938
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 141
Best rank ever
#601
1969
Peak year
1969
170 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,734
Count in 2025
80

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,508
1988
Peak year
1988
27 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
243
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jacques

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

JacobyJacintoMarquesJacoreyJacobiJacquezJacoboJacolbyJackyJacariJacqueJacksenJacobeJaceyonJacoryJackieJaceonJacenJaceionJacarriJacielJacoriJacksonJacksyn

Names with a curve like Jacques

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

FedericoArnulfoEloyReynaldoHeribertoArnoldoLarsRaymundoNorbertoFidelEugenioDonnell

Sibling names for Jacques

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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