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Jackelyn

#13,883 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jackelyn has been given to 3,896 babies in the U.S. since 1943. In 2025 it ranked #13,883 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 193 recorded.

Babies named Jackelyn, 2025

1 in 553,000

Jackelyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jackelyn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jackelyn means

Jackelyn is a given name.

The naming story behind Jackelyn

Wikidata records Jackelyn as a given name. The entity identifier is Q139505813, 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, 3,896 girls were recorded with the name Jackelyn between 1943 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 193 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,072 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,946 in 2020 to #13,883 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,947 in 2015 to #13,883 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 Jackelyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,883
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jackelyn 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jackelyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jackelyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jackelyn was born before 2001 — so the typical Jackelyn is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,889
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.3% of all recorded uses (1,413).

Is Jackelyn 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
−6,506
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,937
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−10,936
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.10×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.1%
Peak was 2000 (193)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,072
2000

Spellings of Jackelyn

Jackelyn is not the most common spelling — Jocelyn is, with 35.6% against Jackelyn's 1.2%.

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 Jackelyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Jackelyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 43,444 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 16,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 20,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 50,000
  7. 7Nevada1 in 50,000
  8. 8New York1 in 50,000

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

Jackelyn around the world

Where Jackelyn 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
    1994–1994
    #1,986
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1957–1999
    #729
    in 1999

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.

Jackelyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,883
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,937
Best rank ever
#1,072
2000
Peak year
2000
193 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,896
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Jackelyn

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

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Names with a curve like Jackelyn

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

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Sibling names for Jackelyn

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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