Jackson
Top 1000
About Jackson
Jackson is one of those names that's much more popular than you think, coming in near the top of our annual Playground Analysis, which ranks names by grouping all their spellings together. Last year, more than 13,000 baby boys were named Jackson -- along Jaxon, Jaxson, Jaxxon, Jaxen, Jaxyn, Jaxsen, and Jaxsyn -- which counted together makes it the Number 5 boys' name.
But Jackson in this spelling is starting to slip, now less popular than father names John and even Jack, which it's often shortened to.
With its gentleman cowboy feel, Jackson is now popular throughout the English-speaking world, though it fails to achieve the true international popularity of other top boys' names such as Lucas, Leo, and even Liam.
It's been chosen over the years by several celebrities for their sons, including Spike Lee, Poppy Montgomery, Carson Daly, Maria Bello, Natalie Maines, Scott Wolf, Maya Rudolph, Katey Sagal, and Charlize Theron, though its heyday as a celebrity baby name was at least a decade ago.
One of the most common surnames in America, it's got a presidential ring via Andrew Jackson and an artistic one through Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock, whose real name was Paul Jackson Pollock.
Pronounced JAK-sun.
As of October 2026, Jackson ranked #36 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #14 in 2021, Nameberry popularity #225.
Editor's take: The name Jackson is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Jack".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #18 | 12,240 | 6,372.1 |
| 2015 | #17 | 12,293 | 6,413.5 |
| 2016 | #17 | 11,311 | 5,960.3 |
| 2017 | #20 | 10,466 | 5,654.4 |
| 2018 | #17 | 10,423 | 5,739 |
| 2019 | #17 | 10,169 | 5,667.7 |
| 2020 | #17 | 9,131 | 5,290 |
| 2021 | #14 | 9,279 | 5,303.9 |
| 2022 | #23 | 8,114 | 4,647.2 |
| 2023 | #28 | 7,325 | 4,282.2 |
| 2024 | #35 | 6,876 | 3,991 |
| 2025 | #36 | 6,582 | 3,853.5 |
World rankings
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Jackson on lists
Famous Jacksons
- Jackson Nash
son of musician Graham Nash
- (Monroe) Jackson Rathbone
American actor
- (Clyde) Jackson Browne
American singer,songwriter
- (Paul) Jackson Pollock
American painter
- (Jackson) DeForest Kelley
American actor
- Jackson Ryan Hurst
American actor
- Jackson Reid Odell
American actor
- Jackson Wang
Chinese rapper, dancer, and television personality; member of the South Korean boy band Got7
- Jackson Guthy
American singer,songwriter
- Jackson Frayn "Jack" Harries
English actor & vlogger
- Jackson Keith "Jamaal" Wilkes
American basketball player
- Jackson Smith (b. 1982)
son of singers Patti Smith and Fred "Sonic" Smith
- Jackson James White (b. 1996)
son of actress Katey Sagal and Jack White
- Jackson Lee (b. 1997)
son of director Spike Lee
- Jackson Scott "Jack" Willis (b. 1998)
5th child of the family band The Willis Clan
- Jackson Spiner (b. 2002)
son of actor Brent Spiner
- Jackson McCormack (b. 2003)
son of singer Gina Jeffreys and Rod McCormack
- Jackson Mohr (b. 2003)
son of actor/comedian Jay Mohr
- Jackson Ezekiel Bates (b. 2003)
12th child (5th son) of reality TV's Bates family
- Jackson Levi Duggar (b. 2004)
15th child of reality TV's Duggar family
- Jackson Koch (b. 2005)
son of singer Kellie Coffey and Geoff Koch
- Jackson Carpinello (b. 2005)
son of actors Amy Acker and James Carpinello
- Jackson "Sonny" Miller (b. 2006)
son of actors Ben Miller and Belinda Stewart,Wilson
- Jackson John Frieda (b. 2007)
son of hairstylist John Frieda
- Jackson Phillip Deveraux Montgomery Kaufman (b. 2007)
son of actors Adam Kaufman and Poppy Montgomery
- Jackson James Daly (b. 2009)
son of TV host Carson Daly
- Jackson Kayse Wolf (b. 2009)
son of actor Scott Wolf and reality TV personality Kelley Limp
- Jackson Robert Money (b. 2009)
son of actress Emme Rylan and Don Money
- Jackson Lloyd Packer (b. 2010)
son of singer Erica Packer and mogul James Packer
- Jackson Theron (b. 2011)
son of actress Charlize Theron
- Jackson Wright Henson (b. 2011)
son of comedian John Henson
- Jackson Anthony Bosh (b. 2012)
son of basketball player Chris Bosh and Adrienne Williams
- Jackson Jay "JJ" Croft (b. 2012)
son of actors Jamie Croft and Saskia Burmeister
- Jackson Dunkleman (b. 2013)
son of TV host Brian Dunkleman
- Jackson Clark Mecham (b. 2014)
son of vloggers Ellie & Jared
- Jackson Khai Nguyen (b. 2015)
son of vloggers Khoa Nguyen and Keren Swanson
- Jackson Kyle Roloff (b. 2017)
son of reality TV's Zach and Tori Roloff
- Andrew Jackson
7th President of the U.S.
- Stonewall Jackson
American Civil War general
Jackson in pop culture
- Jackson "Jax" Teller
main character on TV's "Sons of Anarchy"
- Jackson Stewart
character on TV's "Hannah Montana"
- Jackson Maine
main character in 2018 film "A Star is Born"
- Jackson Avery
surgeon on TV's "Grey's Anatomy"
- Jackson Gibbs
father of Leroy Gibbs on TV's "NCIS"
- Jackson Haisley
character on TV's "The Agency"
- Jackson Curtis
main character in film "2012"
- Jackson "Jack" Rippner
villain of "Red Eye," played by Cillian Murphy
- Jackson "Jax" Briggs
character in video game series "Mortal Kombat"
- Jackson Kenner
character on TV's "The Originals", husband of Hayley Marshall
- Jackson Whittemore
character on TV's "Teen Wolf"
- Jackson Meyer
main character of the "Tempest" series by Julie Cross
- Jackson Jekyll
son of Dr. and Mrs. Jekyll in "Monster High" show and series
- Jackson Oz
main character in TV show "Zoo"
- Jackson Fuller
character on Netflix,series "Fuller House"
- "Miss Jackson
" song by Panic! At The Disco
- Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside
character in "Mame"
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians
book series by Rick Riordan
- Jackson
town in Wyoming.