Jack

A male given name, form of Jacob or John.

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Jack is a male given name, although in some cases it can be used as a female given name (a shortened versioned of "Jacqueline" or "Jackie", for example), and sometimes as a surname. In English Jack is traditionally used as the diminutive form of John; it can be used also as diminutive for Jacob and sometimes for James due to his french form Jacques. Jack is now also a proper name in its own right.
The name Jack is unusual in the English language for its frequency of use as a verb and a noun for many common objects and actions, and its use in many compound words and phrases, e.g.: apple jack, hijack, jack of clubs (playing card), jack straw (scarecrow), jack tar (sailor), jack-in-the-box, jack-of-all-trades, jack o'lantern, jackdaw, jackhammer, jackknife, jackpot, lumberjack, union jack, etc. The Encyclopædia Britannica article on the history of the word "jack" linked it directly to the common name: "Jack, a word with a great variety of meanings and applications, all traceable to the common use of the word as a by-name of a man."

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Masc. proper name, attested by 1218, probably via Anglo-French Jake, Jaikes, from Old French Jacques (which was a diminutive of Latin Jacobus; see Jacob), but in English the name always has been regarded as a familiar form of John, and some have argued that it is a native formation. In Middle English spelled Jakke, Jacke, etc., and pronounced as two syllables ("Jackie"). In England, Jack became a generic name applied familiarly or contemptuously to anybody (especially a young man of the lower classes) from late 14c. Later used especially of sailors (1650s; Jack-tar is from 1781); Jack-ashore (adj.) "drinking and in high spirits, recklessly spending" (1875) also is an image from sailors (1840 as a book title). In U.S., as a generic name addressed to an unknown stranger, attested from 1889. Every man Jack "everyone" is from 1812. Also see jack (n.). Used in male personifications from 15c.; first record of jack-of-all-trades "person handy at any kind of work or business" is from 1610s; Jack Frost is from 1826; Jack-nasty "a sneak or sloven" is from 1833 (Jack-nasty-face, a sea-term for a common sailor, is from 1788). Jack Sprat for a small, light man is from 1560s (his opposite was Jack Weight). Jack-pudding "comical clown, buffoon" is from 1640s. Jack-Spaniard is from 1703 as a Spaniard, 1833 as "a hornet" in the West Indies. Other personifications listed in Farmer & Henley include jack-snip "a botching tailor," Jack-in-office "overbearing petty official" (1680s), Jack-on-both-sides "a neutral," Jack-out-of-doors "a vagrant" (1630s), jack-sauce "impudent fellow" (1590s). The U.S. plant jack-in-the-pulpit (Indian turnip) is attested by 1833. Jack the Ripper was active in London 1888. The Scottish form is Jock (compare jockey (n.)). Alliterative coupling of Jack and Jill is from 15c. (Iakke and Gylle, Ienken and Iulyan). Jack Ketch for "hangman, executioner" (1670s) is said to be from the name of a public executioner in the time of James II (compare Derrick); it also was used as a verb meaning "to hang."

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Diminutive of the Biblical name John, shortened form of Jackin, means: little John, God is gracious, supplanter, held by the heel.

Jacqueline, Jake, Jackson, Jacques, Johnny, Jay, James, Juan, Jackie, Jan, Jaco, Ian, Evan, Yahya, John, Giovanni, Jacob, Jean, Ioan, Jock

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Jack the Ripper		Unidentified serial killer
2	Jack Nicholson	1937	American actor, film director, producer, and writer
3	Jack Black	1969	American actor, comedian, musician, music producer
4	Jack Ruby	1911	Dallas, Texas, nightclub operator who killed American presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
5	Jack Ma	1964	Chinese businessman
6	Jack White	1975	American musician and record producer
7	Jack Whitehall	1988	British comedian, television presenter and actor
8	Jack Lemmon	1925	American actor
9	Jack O'Connell	1990	British actor
10	Jack Kerouac	1922	American writer
11	Jack Gleeson	1992	Irish actor
12	Jack Falahee	1989	American actor
13	Jack Huston	1982	British actor
14	Captain Jack Sparrow		Fictional character and the protagonist of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series
15	Jack Nicklaus	1940	American golfer, born 1940
16	Jack London	1876	American author, journalist, and social activist
17	Jack Antonoff	1984	American musician
18	Jack Kevorkian	1928	American pathologist, euthanasia activist
19	Jack Kirby	1917	American comic book artist, writer and editor
20	Jack Dorsey	1976	Internet computer software executive, CEO of Twitter
21	Jack Churchill	1906	British soldier who fought throughout World War II armed with a longbow, arrows, and a Scottish broadsword
22	Jack Wilshere	1992	English footballer
23	Jack McBrayer	1973	American actor
24	Jack Palance	1919	American actor and singer
25	Calico Jack	1682	English pirate
26	Jack Quaid	1992	Actor
27	Jack Klugman	1922	American actor
28	Jack Dempsey	1895	American boxer
29	Jack Cassidy	1927	Actor, director
30	Jack Davenport	1973	English actor
31	Jack Del Rio	1963	All-American college football player, professional football player, linebacker, coach
32	Jack Kemp	1935	American football player, quarterback, U.S. Congressman
33	Jack Swagger	1982	American professional wrestler
34	Jack Benny	1894	Comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor
35	Jack Reynor	1992	Irish-American actor
36	Jack McVitie	1932	English criminal
37	Jack Wagner	1959	American actor and singer
38	Jack Osbourne	1985	Son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne
39	Jack Welch	1935	American executive: General Electric CEO
40	Jack Lew	1955	76th United States Secretary of the Treasury
41	Jack Lord	1920	American actor
42	Jack Bruce	1943	Scottish musician
43	Jack LaLanne	1914	American author, fitness trainer and businessman
44	Captain Jack Harkness		Fictional character of Doctor Who and Torchwood
45	Wolfman Jack	1938	American disc jockey and music television host
46	Jack Albertson	1907	American character actor
47	Jack Wild	1952	British actor
48	Jack Sock	1992	American tennis player
49	Jack Bauer	1966	Character from the television series 24
50	Jack Butland	1993	English footballer
51	Jack Haley	1898	American stage, radio and film actor
52	Jack Lawless	1987	American musician
53	Jack Elam	1920	American film actor
54	Jack Warden	1920	Actor
55	Jack Hemingway	1923	Canadian-American fly fisherman, conservationist and writer
56	Jack Swigert	1931	NASA Astronaut, Pilot
57	Jack Savoretti	1983	British musician
58	Jack Werner	1989	Swedish journalist
59	John Whiteside Parsons	1914	American rocket engineer
60	Jack Skellington
61	Jack Irons	1962	Musician, songwriter
62	Jack Hodgins		Fictional human
63	John Schlossberg	1993	Grandson of JFK
64	Jack Nance	1943	American actor
65	Jack Lowden	1990	Scottish actor
66	Spring-heeled Jack		English folklore character
67	New Jack	1963	Professional wrestler
68	Jack Gallagher	1990	British wrestler
69	Badou Jack	1983	Gambian boxer
70	Jack Webb	1920	American actor, producer, director, author
71	Jack Griffo	1996	American actor
72	Jack Grealish	1995	Footballer
73	Jack Coleman	1958	American actor and screenwriter
74	Jack Charlton	1935	English footballer and manager
75	Jack Jones	1938	American singer and actor
76	Jack Hawkins	1910	An English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s
77	Jack Hanna	1947	American zoologist
78	Jack Monroe		British writer, journalist and political campaigner
79	Jack Abramoff	1959	US Republican lobbyist
80	Jack McCall	1850	Murderer of Wild Bill Hickok
81	Jack Kilmer	1995	American actor
82	Jack Eichel	1996	American ice hockey player
83	Jack Soo	1917	American actor
84	Jack Garratt	1991	British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer
85	Jack Lengyel	1935	American football coach, lacrosse coach, college athletics administrator, software executive
86	Jack Van Impe	1931	American televangelst, bible scholar, prophet, host of Jack Van Impe Presents TV show
87	Jack Unterweger	1950	Austrian serial killer
88	Jack Daniel	1850	American distiller and founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery.
89	Jack Larson	1928	American actor and writer
90	Jack Buck	1924	American sportscaster
91	Myles Jack	1995	American football player
92	Jack Layton	1950	Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
93	Jack Lambert	1952	American football player
94	Jack Schwartzman	1932	American film producer
95	Jack Paar	1918	Television host
96	Jack Carson	1910	Canadian-born American-based film actor
97	Jack Riley	1935	American actor
98	Jarrett Jack	1983	American professional basketball player
99	Jack Dunphy	1914	American writer
100	Jack Rodwell	1991	English footballer
101	Jack Dee	1961	British comedian
102	Jack Straw	1946	British politician
103	Jack McCoy		Character in the TV series Law & Order
104	Jack Branning
105	Jack Ryder	1981	British actor
106	Jack Harrison	1996
107	Jack Farthing	1985	English actor
108	Jack Thompson	1940	Actor
109	Jack Fisk	1945	Film director, art director
110	Jack Andraka	1997	Inventor, scientist and cancer researcher
111	Jack Noseworthy	1969	American actor
112	Jack Torrance
113	Jack Dodson	1931	American actor
114	Jack Donaghy
115	Jack Whittaker	1947	American lottery winner
116	Jack Weston	1924	American film, stage, and television actor
117	Jack Scanlon	1998	Child actor
118	Jack Kelly	1927	Actor, politician
119	Jack Tatum	1948	All-American college football player, professional football player, defensive back, safety, College Football Hall of Fame member
120	Jack P. Shepherd	1988	Soap opera actor
121	Jack Douglass	1988	Internet personality
122	Jack Shephard	1969	Character from the American mystery fiction television series Lost
123	Jack Nitzsche	1937	American musician
124	Jack Casady	1944	American rock musician
125	Jack Carter	1922	Comedian and actor
126	Jack Gilpin	1951	American actor
127	Jack Morris	1955	Baseball player
128	Jack Youngblood	1950	American football player, defensive end, Pro Football Hall of Fame, College Football Hall of Fame
129	Jack O'Halloran	1943	American boxer, actor
130	Jack Laugher	1995	British diver
131	Jack Keane	1943	United States general
132	Jack Brabham	1926	Australian Formula One champion
133	Jack Kilby	1923	American electrical engineer
134	Jack Ryan	1926	American designer
135	Jack Colback	1989	English footballer
136	Jack Canfield	1944	American writer
137	Jack Collison	1988	English footballer
138	Jack Twist
139	Jack Vettriano	1951	Scottish painter
140	Jack Sikma	1955	American basketball player-coach
141	Jack Valenti	1921	President of the MPAA
142	Jack Harbaugh	1939	American football player and coach
143	Jack Napier	1976	American pornographic actor
144	Jack McManus	1984	British musician
145	Union Jack
146	Jack Burns	1933	American actor
147	Jack Higgins	1929	British novelist
148	Jack Kingston	1955	American politician
149	Jack Vance	1916	American mystery and speculative fiction writer
150	Jack Herer	1939	American Cannabis/Hemp and freedom activist
151	Jack Abbott
152	Jack Cork	1989	Footballer
153	Jack Phillips	1887	British sailor
154	Jack Evans	1982	American professional wrestler
155	Jack Gilford	1907	American actor, comedian
156	Jack Dawson	1889	Character from James Cameron's Titanic
157	Jack Hobbs	1882	English cricket player
158	Jack Carroll	1998	British comedian
159	Jack Donnelly	1985	British actor
160	Jack Horner	1946	American paleontologist
161	Jack Brisco	1941	Professional wrestler and amateur wrestler
162	Jack Taylor	1990	American college basketball player
163	Jack Reagan	1883	Father of Ronald Reagan
164	Jack Nowell	1993	British rugby union player
165	Jack O'Neill	1923	American businessman
166	Jack DeSena	1987	American actor
167	Jack Blades	1954	American musician
168	Jack Shepherd	1940	British actor
169	Jack Deam	1972	British actor
170	Jack Stephens	1994	English footballer
171	Jack Flag
172	Jack Fox	1985	British actor
173	Jack MacGowran	1918	Actor
174	Jack Kent Cooke	1912	Entrepreneur, sports team owner
175	Jack Douglas	1927	British actor
176	Jack Scalia	1950	Actor
177	Jack Parow	1982	Rapper
178	Jack Thayer	1894	Survivor of the RMS Titanic
179	Jack Dishel		American musician
180	Jack Ham	1948	American football player
181	Jack Conklin	1994
182	Jack Warner	1943	Trinidad and Tobago politician, businessman, and former FIFA executive
183	Jack T. Chick	1924	Christian comics writer
184	Jack Starrett	1936	American actor
185	Jack Dragna	1891	American mobster
186	Jack Sheppard	1702	18th century criminal
187	Jack Kruschen	1922	Canadian actor
188	Jack Ward	1600	English pirate
189	Jack Handey	1949	American comedian
190	Jack O'Callahan	1957	American ice hockey player
191	Jack Bannon	1940	American actor
192	Jack Cohen	1898	British businessman
193	Jack		Character in Tekken
194	Jack Conley	1958	American actor
195	Jack Pickford	1896	Actor
196	Jack Conway	1969	Attorney General of Kentucky
197	Jack Donovan	1908	Australian rules footballer
198	Jack Tunney	1935	Canadian sports businessman
199	Jack Crawford	1988	American football player
200	Jack Barmby	1994	Footballer