Jack

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jack is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ireland it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From a pet form of John, probably via Low German/Dutch Jankin and Jackin; or from Old French Jacques from Latin Jacobus.

rarermore common
  • IEIreland1 in 183◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 353
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 574

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈675K ●

across 10 countries

#527 ●

of 16M given names

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
581 ●

4.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 169 ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

JackLatin · English●4.7M records
ג'קHebrew · Hebrew●6.5K records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled ג'ק in FR France, IL Israel and יאצק in PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Jack: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Jack
  1. LowGerman/Dutch●
  2. Old French Jacquesfrom●

From a pet form of John, probably via Low German/Dutch Jankin and Jackin; or from Old French Jacques from Latin Jacobus.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jack is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#125414,6233.6M rec.1 in 802415KJack581
GB United Kingdom#95360,023274K rec.—1.7KJack294
AU Australia#57328,221176K rec.—914Jack311
PL Poland—227,193△109 rec.1 in 169229Kיאצק5
CA Canada#89135,348106K rec.—140Jack246
IE Ireland#1251,00214K rec.—677Jack153
IT Italy#30028,56729K rec.—listedJack106
DE Germany#64521,00622K rec.—1Jack158
PH Philippines—17,83916K rec.——Jack115
SG Singapore#3114,40415K rec.——Jack125
FR France—14,395△471 rec.1 in 4.7K14Kג'ק10
MY Malaysia#35013,13714K rec.——Jack106

Roughly 415K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 802). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English4.7M81%
  • Spanish200K3%
  • French128K2%
  • 127K2%
  • Portuguese55K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English4,670,17481%
Spanish199,9403%
French128,1012%
127,2812%
Portuguese54,7491%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jack is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name465K records spelled Jack32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Jãçk, Jãck, Jäčk, Jàck, Jāck

  • a separate given name142K records spelled Jack2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Jäck

  • a separate given name70K records spelled Jack21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Canada

    Also written Jãck, Jãçk, Jäçk, Jãčk, Jàck

  • Polish given name41K records spelled Jack63 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, United Kingdom, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Джек, Dzhek, Jak, Dzek, Džek

  • Finnish given name11K records spelled Jack4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Hungary, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Jãčk

76 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jack is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, from a pet form of John, or possibly from French Jacques; first attested Petrus, Andreas filius Jake 1195–7 P (Co)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, From the name John; also used as an independent name. God is gracious.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, English given name related to Jacques; also yields surname forms.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

  • In German, from a short form of Jakob/Jacob, ultimately Hebrew Yaʿaqōb

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In English, Shortened form of Jacob; first noted as a surname in 1473.

    as a nameScottish Surnames

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05K10K15K19001950200013K · 1927

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Jack in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
1880204
1881197
1882271
1883242
1884274
1885295
1886299
1887251
1888329
1889322
1890368
1891290
1892401
1893405
1894441
1895479
1896539
1897497
1898633
1899582
19001,053
1901645
1902743
1903831
1904908
1905907
1906880
19071,019
19081,086
19091,150
19101,576
19111,668
19122,870
19133,538
19144,485
19155,749
19166,161
19176,875
19188,341
19198,263
19209,599
192110,757
192210,847
192311,190
192411,921
192512,011
192612,195
192712,802
192812,494
192912,167
193012,430
193111,488
193210,716
19339,838
19349,985
19359,438
19368,857
19378,194
19388,144
19397,306
19407,048
19416,950
19427,365
19437,398
19447,253
19456,857
19467,801
19478,507
19487,612
19497,128
19506,840
19517,004
19526,937
19536,540
19546,475
19556,200
19566,051
19576,024
19585,301
19595,015
19604,918
19614,639
19624,170
19633,814
19643,809
19653,199
19662,964
19672,782
19682,692
19692,606
19702,564
19712,364
19721,899
19731,850
19741,648
19751,742
19761,662
19771,672
19781,579
19791,582
19801,627
19811,616
19821,620
19831,526
19841,483
19851,523
19861,522
19871,656
19881,655
19891,716
19901,838
19911,949
19922,070
19932,425
19942,781
19953,448
19964,245
19974,984
19986,376
19997,385
20008,125
20018,149
20029,000
20039,318
20049,580
200510,906
200610,837
200710,671
20089,897
20099,029
20108,520
20118,185
20127,941
20138,577
20148,753
20158,514
20168,430
20178,477
20188,894
20199,404
20208,945
20219,568
20228,936
20238,715
20248,472
20258,748

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Jack Johnson, b. 1878Jack Dempsey, b. 1895Jack Albertson, b. 1907Jack Palance, b. 1919Jackie Robinson, b. 1919Jack Kerouac, b. 1922Jack Kilby, b. 1923Jack Ma, b. 1964Jack Davenport, b. 1973CM Punk, b. 1978

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 132 sources across 68 countries.

Official registers attesting Jack
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020415K#112
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201015K#2,382
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202015K#2,345
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202414K#765
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200014K#2,376
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—10K#388
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20258.7K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20206.3K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—4.1K#833
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2.7K#889
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20242.3K#445
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—2.3K#210

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,688 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jack?
We estimate roughly 675 thousand people bear Jack (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Jack have the most bearers?
We estimate about 415 thousand people bear Jack in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jack.
Where is Jack most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jack is densest in Poland — about 1 in 169 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Jack compared with other names?
In the United States, Jack is the 125th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Jack a male or female name?
Jack is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jack mean?
Recorded meaning: From a pet form of John, probably via Low German/Dutch Jankin and Jackin; or from Old French Jacques from Latin Jacobus.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jack” — the 125th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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