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Jacquelin

#11,313 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jacquelin has been given to 9,686 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #11,313 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 211 recorded.

Babies named Jacquelin, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jacquelin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jacquelin means

Jacquelin is a given name.

The naming story behind Jacquelin

Wikidata records Jacquelin as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q109466811, 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, 9,686 girls were recorded with the name Jacquelin between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 211 in 2000; its best national rank was #670 in 1931.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,171 in 2020 to #11,313 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,672 in 2015 to #11,313 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 Jacquelin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,313
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jacquelin 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacquelin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jacquelins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jacquelin was born before 1971 — so the typical Jacquelin is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
16.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,277
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2000s — 16.6% of all recorded uses (1,607).

Is Jacquelin 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
−2,133
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,142
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,641
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.19×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.8%
Peak was 2000 (211)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#670
1931

Spellings of Jacquelin

Jacquelin is not the most common spelling — Jacqueline is, with 74.3% against Jacquelin's 1.7%.

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 Jacquelin is used

Across 1910–2025, Jacquelin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 27,480 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 11,111
  2. 2Virginia1 in 14,286
  3. 3Texas1 in 16,667
  4. 4Arizona1 in 20,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 20,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 20,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 25,000
  8. 8New York1 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. Jacquelin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jacquelin around the world

Where Jacquelin 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
    1991–1995
    #2,576
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1947–2005
    #775
    in 2005

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.

Notable people named Jacquelin

People whose public names include Jacquelin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jacquelin in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jacquelin. Linked forms have their own page here.

JackelinJacquelynJacqueline

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jacquelin by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,313
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,142
Best rank ever
#670
1931
Peak year
2000
211 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,686
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Jacquelin

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

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Names with a curve like Jacquelin

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

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Sibling names for Jacquelin

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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