Jac

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Jac: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Jac: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #246 in 2004, and it stood at #529 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#246highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#369
1997	#353
1998	#342
1999	#326
2000	#314
2001	#305
2002	#272
2003	#258
2004	#246
2005	#339
2006	#296
2007	#316
2008	#329
2009	#343
2010	#363
2011	#367
2012	#367
2013	#350
2014	#378
2015	#379
2016	#470
2017	#508
2018	#481
2019	#490
2020	#420
2021	#551
2022	#444
2023	#447
2024	#529

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2011: #311 among boys in Northern Ireland, #367 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #369 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #246 among boys in England and Wales, in 2004 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #529 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Jac appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,801 births with the name.

Jac across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Jac's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#369 (1996)	#246 (2004)	#529 (2024)	29 of 29	2,801 (1996–2024)	134 (2004)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#305 (2004)	#305 (2004)	#311 (2011)	2 of 8	7 (2004–2011)	4 (2011)

Jac by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Jac in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	277	4 of 10	69
2000sbusiest	1,095	10 of 10	110
2010s	1,009	10 of 10	101
2020s	420	5 of 10	84

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 110 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2004 and 2005, when recorded births fell by 40, from 134 to 94.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Jac appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #246 in England and Wales in 2004.

Jac's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#529	73	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#447	89	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#444	91	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#551	70	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#420	97	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#490	81	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#481	84	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#508	78	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#470	86	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#379	115	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#378	108	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#350	117	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#367	115	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#367	112	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#363	113	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#343	115	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#329	119	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#316	119	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#296	119	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#339	94	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#246	134	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#258	119	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#272	102	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#305	89	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#314	85	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#326	81	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#342	69	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#353	67	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#369	60	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#311	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#305	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #246, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 134 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 8 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Caoilinn · #246, 30y
Errol · #246, 30y
Earl · #245, 34y
Edyta · #245, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Barney · #246, 29y
Caoilinn · #246, 30y
Hector · #246, 29y
Mack · #246, 29y

Jac was ranked #246 in England and Wales · Boys in 2004. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Jac and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Jac without appearing here.

Jac moved ahead of

Ashley Compare
In 2021 they stood at #551 and #526 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #444 and #699.
Ian Compare
In 2021 they stood at #551 and #551 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #444 and #600.
Niall Compare
In 2021 they stood at #551 and #514 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #444 and #592.
Wayne Compare
In 1997 they stood at #353 and #323 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #342 and #490.

Moved ahead of Jac

Rian Compare
In 2020 they stood at #420 and #475 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #551 and #352.
Finley Compare
In 1997 they stood at #353 and #484 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #342 and #182.
Hunter Compare
In 2011 they stood at #367 and #473 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #367 and #238.
Mathias Compare
In 2023 they stood at #447 and #500 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #529 and #406.

Moved the opposite way to Jac

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jac went from #369 to #529 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jac went from #369 to #529 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jac went from #369 to #529 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jac went from #369 to #529 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Jac

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jac went from #369 to #529 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jac went from #369 to #529 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jac went from #369 to #529 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Jac went from #369 to #529 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #246 in England and Wales in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Jac across 2 official records

Jac by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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