Given name & surname
Jaques
“he who supplants”
Jaques is a variant of Jacques. In French use, Jacques carries the interpretation “he who supplants.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jaques is a variant of Jacques. In French use, Jacques carries the interpretation “he who supplants.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jaques through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 306
- 301 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 28 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 28 in 2001. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 405 as a first name in 2020; 3,104 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jaques’s family of names
In Norman usage, Jaques has a diminutive in Jacot. Jaques has a related form in Jacques. In Norman usage, Jaques has a diminutive in Jaquinot.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jaques
- Jaques Étienne GaySwiss-French botanist, civil servant and botanical collector (1786-1864)
- Jaques WagnerBrazilian industrialist, trade unionist and politician, governor and senator for the State of Bahiaborn 1951
- Ludovic TrarieuxFrench Republican statesman (1840-1904)
- Jaques MorelenbaumBrazilian composer and conductorborn 1954
- Yakov BagratuniArmenian prince and general (1879-1943)
- Jaques LazierAmerican racing driverborn 1971
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.