Jacqeline

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Jacqeline has been given to 99 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 1964, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Jacqeline, 2000

1 in 756,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Jacqeline?

Jacqeline had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 756,000
5 of 3,778,496 births
Among girls only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
523,812 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jacqeline 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 2000 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 523,812 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacqeline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jacqelines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jacqeline was born before 1969 — so the typical Jacqeline is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
55.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
99
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 55.6% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Jacqeline 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 1964 (12)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,957
1964

Spellings of Jacqeline

Jacqeline is not the most common spelling — Jacqueline is, with 88.8% against Jacqeline's 0.02%.

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.

Jacqeline around the world

Where Jacqeline 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.

  • South Australia
    1955–1969
    #731
    in 1969

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jacqeline 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
#3,957
1964
Peak year
1964
12 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
99
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jacqeline

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

Sibling names for Jacqeline

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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