Jac

What Jac means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jac yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #444 vs #5,861 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jac?

US: Rising: up from #8744 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #379 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 18 boys got the name (#5215 that year). First in the US records in 1915.

How common

• About 1 in 113,872 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,126 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

US vs UK

Jac is #5861 in the US and #444 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Jac were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jack8,748 US · 1,595 E&W
• Jake682 US · 213 E&W
• Jak22 US · 5 E&W
• Jkai18 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jac

Boys

• Maximus#275Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1997, with 5 babies
• Noah#2Editor’s note Steady in the US: #1 in 2015 and #2 in 2025. About 1 in 84 US boys in the 2025 records
• Dawson#143Short form of David, meaning “beloved”^*
• Owen#31Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #31 vs #170 in 2025
• Simon#230“sixpence coin”^*
• Isaac#47“he laughs, he will laugh”^*

For a sister

• Nevaeh#165From the word “heaven”^*
• Gracie#227Editor’s note Down from #165 in 2015 to #227 in 2025 in the US
• Madelyn#70Editor’s note Down from #59 in 2015 to #70 in 2025 in the US
• Tatum#189Editor’s note Used for both: 49% of US babies named Tatum in 2025 were girls
• Amaya#180“the end”^*
• Maya#62Editor’s note Steady in the US: #68 in 2015 and #62 in 2025. About 1 in 430 US girls in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jac’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.