Jagger
- Pronunciation
- [Ja-gger]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Carter
- Origin
- English
About the Name Jagger
Jagger began life as an English occupational surname meaning "carter" or "peddler" — a jagger was a hawker who drove a packhorse train of goods through the hills and dales of northern England. Like many trade surnames, it carries the rhythm of a name that spent centuries attached to a job before anyone thought to give it to a child, and its hard double g gives it an unmistakably rugged, rock-and-roll edge that sets it apart from softer, more classical choices.
That surname energy is exactly what fuels its modern appeal. Parents drawn to Jagger tend to be after a name that feels bold and a little rebellious rather than delicate or traditional, and its single-word punch sits comfortably alongside the wave of swagger-laden boys' names — surname-style picks with attitude — that gained ground across the early 2000s. It is the rare given name that sounds like it arrives already wearing leather and sunglasses, ready to take the stage.
As a given name, Jagger first entered the US Social Security top-1000 for boys in 2001 and has remained there every year since, peaking in 2012 at rank #556. It held at #846 in 2024, with 285 boys given the name that year, and stood at #779 as recently as 2022. With a cumulative 6,820 boys recorded across its top-1000 run, it remains a distinctive but stable choice — edgy without being unheard-of, and well established enough to wear comfortably for a lifetime.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Jagger
US Popularity History (2001–2025)
Annual US births named Jagger by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2012 with 469 boys named Jagger (boy rank #556 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #885 for boys (269 US births). That's 329 places below its 2012 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Jagger Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Jagger the strongest states are West Virginia, Arkansas, Oklahoma.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Virginia | #300 | 19 |
| 2 | Arkansas | #338 | 94 |
| 3 | Oklahoma | #391 | 117 |
| 4 | Nebraska | #423 | 23 |
| 5 | Kentucky | #449 | 92 |
| 6 | Utah | #471 | 86 |
| 7 | Nevada | #473 | 18 |
| 8 | Connecticut | #488 | 16 |
| 9 | Mississippi | #493 | 30 |
| 10 | Iowa | #500 | 39 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | #959 | 106 |
| 2 | Illinois | #880 | 40 |
| 3 | Pennsylvania | #834 | 66 |
| 4 | North Carolina | #829 | 39 |
| 5 | Georgia | #821 | 90 |
| 6 | California | #780 | 311 |
| 7 | Colorado | #779 | 17 |
| 8 | Minnesota | #777 | 23 |
| 9 | Michigan | #743 | 78 |
| 10 | Washington | #734 | 52 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Jagger in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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