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Jaques

Boys' name

Variant of Jacques

Jaques has been given to 306 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 2001, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Jaques, 2014

1 in 530,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaques: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jacques

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jaques means

Jaques is a variant of Jacques.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jaques is used in Literature.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.kwiːz/ for Jaques.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jaques → Jacques → Jacob. The family’s meaning is “he will/shall heel”, recorded in English with the source elements yaʿăqōḇ.

Origin, language, and formation

Jaques is used in Norman.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jacques and James.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 301 boys were recorded with the name Jaques between 1977 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2001; its best national rank was #3,173 in 2001.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Jaques between 1992 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1992; its best national rank was #14,137 in 1992.

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 Jaques?

Jaques had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 530,000
7 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 274,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
367,053 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaques 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 2014 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 367,053 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaques. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaquess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaques was born before 1999 — so the typical Jaques is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
41.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
301
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 41.9% of all recorded uses (126).

Is Jaques 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 2001 (28)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,173
2001

Spellings of Jaques

Jaques is not the most common spelling — James is, with 99.3% against Jaques's <0.01%.

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 Jaques is used

Across 1910–2025, Jaques was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 494,010 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in —

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. Jaques has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jaques around the world

Where Jaques 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
    1999–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    1936–1944
    #906
    in 1944
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jaques by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,173
2001
Peak year
2001
28 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
301
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,137
1992
Peak year
1992
5 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jaques

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

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Sibling names for Jaques

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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