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Baby name
Jacques
Boy
Origin of the name
Jacques is the French form of James. It has the same origin as Jacob: the Hebrew Ya'aqov, through the Latin Jacobus.
Classic name
9,734births since 1880
1960sgeneration
No. 601rank at its peak, in 1969
Where babies named Jacques are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Jacques is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Jacques is most common in Louisiana (7.7 times), Florida (2.9) and New York (2.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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