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Boy's name · #36 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave
Jackson reached its best rank, #14, in 2021 and ranked #36 in 2025. Roughly 297,000 boys have been named Jackson since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
Steel Magnolias, released in November 1989, features Julia Roberts’s character Shelby naming her baby Jackson Jr. US births of Jackson rose from 495 in 1989 to 794 in 1990.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#59 in New Zealand (2025) · #71 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #90 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #130 in Scotland (2025) · #139 in England & Wales (2025) · #166 in N. Ireland (2025) · #202 in Ireland (2025) · #330 in Ecuador (2025) · #434 in Netherlands (2025) · #498 in Sweden (2025) · #1,104 in Austria (2025) · #1,125 in Belgium (2025) and 3 more.
It is also an American family name — about 708,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 603 notable people named Jackson:
Sports figures appear 2.43× more often than among typical names — e.g. Jackson Martínez, Colombian footballer.
Popular twin pairings with Jackson include Addison, Ava, and Ella for girls.
Together with its spelling variants Jaxon (#115) and Jaxson (#156), Jackson would rank around #5 with about 12,000 births last year — the newborns split about 54/26/20 across Jackson, Jaxon, and Jaxson.
About 220 boys a year are given Jaxx as their full name.
Similar names: Jaxon · Carter · Jace · Carson · Mason · Cooper
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