Jaycee
Jaycee is a given name. Notable people with the name include:Jaycee Carroll, American-Azerbaijani basketball player Jaycee Chan, American-born Hong Kong actor and singer Jaycee Dugard, American kidnapping victim Jaycee Horn, American football player Jaycee John Okwunwanne, Nigerian footballer
- English
Meaning & Origin of Jaycee
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Jaycee is a given name. Notable people with the name include:Jaycee Carroll, American-Azerbaijani basketball player Jaycee Chan, American-born Hong Kong actor and singer Jaycee Dugard, American kidnapping victim Jaycee Horn, American football player Jaycee John Okwunwanne, Nigerian footballer
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Jaycee
As a girl name
Jaycee first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 1968, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2010: 572 births, good for #521 nationwide. About 39% of every Jaycee on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Jaycee ranks #870 for girls with 311 births, holding steady (-4%). All told, over 12K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
Jaycee first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a boy name in 1934, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2020: 70 births, good for #2,022 nationwide. About 27% of every Jaycee on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Jaycee ranks #2,512 for boys with 54 births, gradually rising (+12%). All told, over 2K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1930s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Jaycee
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Jaycee. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Jaycee
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About the name Jaycee
Jaycee is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1968 and has accumulated 12K births in the dataset. Jaycee's peak popularity came in 2010 when it ranked #516. Use the chart and map above to compare Jaycee's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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