Jack
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From a pet form of John, probably via Low German/Dutch Jankin and Jackin; or from Old French Jacques from Latin Jacobus
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 68 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Jack is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 52nd most common given name.
- IEIreland≈1 in 410(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 480
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 490
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jack itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #280 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 637 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 414 (inferred from the name graph)
415,678 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- LowGerman/Dutch(measured from records)
- Old French Jacquesfrom(measured from records)
From a pet form of John, probably via Low German/Dutch Jankin and Jackin; or from Old French Jacques from Latin Jacobus.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Jack, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jack counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #129 | 415,678 | 1 in 800 | 415K | Jack | 637 |
| PL Poland | — | 227,193as Jacek | 1 in 169 | 229K | — | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | #88 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 490 | 1.7K | Jack | 374 |
| CA Canada | #103 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 673 | 140 | Jack | 317 |
| AU Australia | #87 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 478 | 914 | Jack | 332 |
| IE Ireland | #55 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 414 | 677 | Jack | 165 |
| SG Singapore | #52 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 592 | — | Jack | 136 |
| NZ New Zealand | #94 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 561 | 156 | Jack | 185 |
415,678 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jack Johnsonb. 1878USAmerican boxer (1878–1946)
- Jack Dempseyb. 1895USAmerican boxer (1895-1983)
- Jack Albertsonb. 1907USAmerican actor (1907–1981)
- Jack Palanceb. 1919USAmerican actor (1919–2006)
- Jackie Robinsonb. 1919USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player (1919–1972)
- Jack Kerouacb. 1922USAmerican writer (1922–1969)
- Jack Kilbyb. 1923USAmerican electrical engineer (1923–2005)
- Jack Mab. 1964CNChinese businessman
- Jack Davenportb. 1973GBBritish actor
- CM Punkb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler, actor, and retired mixed martial artist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)138 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 68 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 415K | #112 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8.7K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024) | 2024 | 1.7K | #22 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #112 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 1K | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 914 | — |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2019 | 677 | #1 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 657 | #610 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 580 | #629 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2025 | 308 | #10 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2025 | 308 | #10 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 247 | #7 |
Reference works 9
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Jack?
- In the etymology graph, John, Juan and Ivan are forms of the same name in other languages; Jackie is a recorded short or pet form.
- Is Jack a male or female name?
- Jack is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- What does the name Jack mean, and where does it come from?
- From a pet form of John, probably via Low German/Dutch Jankin and Jackin; or from Old French Jacques from Latin Jacobus. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Jack have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 416 thousand people named Jack, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jack.
- How common is the name Jack?
- In the United States, the national register counted 415,678 people named Jack in 2020, about 1 in 800 residents.
- How common is Jack compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jack is the 129th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jackThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 129th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.