Gender:
Origin:
Hebrew
5384 famous people named Jack found on Wikipedia.
693886 male, 2654 female in US.
Most recent ranking:
28-th in year 2018
Best ranking:
14-th in year 1930
Used in: English
A male given name, form of Jacob or John.
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."
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."
Diminutive of the Biblical name John, shortened form of Jackin, means: little John, God is gracious, supplanter, held by the heel.
Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
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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 |