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Jacalyn

Girls' name

Variant of Jacqueline

Jacalyn has been given to 5,185 babies in the U.S. since 1937. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1954, with 482 recorded.

Babies named Jacalyn, 2023

1 in 331,000

Jacalyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jacalyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jacqueline

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jacalyn means

Jacalyn is a variant of Jacqueline.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jacalyn is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.lɪn/ and /ˈd͡ʒæk.lɪn/ for Jacalyn.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jacalyn → Jacqueline. The family’s meaning is “heel”, recorded in English with the source elements ‘akev.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jacqueline.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,185 girls were recorded with the name Jacalyn between 1937 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 482 in 1954; its best national rank was #394 in 1954.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jacalyn?

Jacalyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 331,000
10 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 160,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
229,764 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jacalyn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,764 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacalyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jacalyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jacalyn was born before 1956 — so the typical Jacalyn is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
50.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,811
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1950s — 50.1% of all recorded uses (2,599).

Is Jacalyn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1954 (482)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#394
1954

Spellings of Jacalyn

Jacalyn is not the most common spelling — Jocelyn is, with 33.4% against Jacalyn's 1.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jacalyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Jacalyn was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 41,500 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 11,111
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 12,500
  3. 3Michigan1 in 16,667
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 16,667
  5. 5North Dakota1 in 16,667
  6. 6Iowa1 in 25,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 25,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jacalyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jacalyn around the world

Where Jacalyn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1991–1993
    #2,426
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1946–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jacalyn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#394
1954
Peak year
1954
482 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
5,185
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jacalyn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JacelynJackelynJacklynJacqulynJaclynJacqlynJacilynJacolynJacindaJacintaJackalynJacquelynJacqualynJaclynnJackilynKathlynJerilynKarolynJazzlynJacklynnShaelynMarylynJacieJacquilyn

Names with a curve like Jacalyn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jacalyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DebrahRandyLuDebbraGeralynCindaVickeyLuanneJannCatheyLuannJoette

Sibling names for Jacalyn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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