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Jacelyn

#5,798 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jacelyn has been given to 2,988 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #5,798 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 127 recorded.

Babies named Jacelyn, 2025

1 in 158,000

Jacelyn over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jacelyn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jacelyn means

Jacelyn is a given name.

The naming story behind Jacelyn

Wikidata records Jacelyn as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q105839839, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,983 girls were recorded with the name Jacelyn between 1949 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 127 in 2013; its best national rank was #1,668 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,907 in 2020 to #5,798 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,900 in 2015 to #5,798 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Jacelyn between 2025 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2025; its best national rank was #12,771 in 2025.

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.

How common is Jacelyn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,798
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jacelyn 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 2025 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacelyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jacelyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jacelyn was born before 2006 — so the typical Jacelyn is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,976
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.8% of all recorded uses (978).

Is Jacelyn 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
−1,379
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,891
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,898
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.20×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.5%
Peak was 2013 (127)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,668
2013

Spellings of Jacelyn

Jacelyn is not the most common spelling — Katelyn is, with 17.6% against Jacelyn's 0.39%.

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 Jacelyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Jacelyn was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 125,979 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 20,000
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 50,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 100,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

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. Jacelyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jacelyn around the world

Where Jacelyn 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.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2002–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1954–1982
    #670
    in 1982

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jacelyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,798
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,891
Best rank ever
#1,668
2013
Peak year
2013
127 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,983
Count in 2025
21

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,771
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#12,771
2025
Peak year
2025
5 that year
First recorded
2025
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Jacelyn

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

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Names with a curve like Jacelyn

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

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Sibling names for Jacelyn

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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