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Jacquelyne

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jacquelyne has been given to 3,184 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1961, with 66 recorded.

Babies named Jacquelyne, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jacquelyne: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jacquelyne means

Jacquelyne is a given name.

The naming story behind Jacquelyne

Wikidata records Jacquelyne as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q76881382, 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, 3,184 girls were recorded with the name Jacquelyne between 1919 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 66 in 1961; its best national rank was #1,094 in 1943.

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 Jacquelyne?

Jacquelyne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jacquelyne 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacquelyne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jacquelynes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jacquelyne was born before 1967 — so the typical Jacquelyne is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
14.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,371
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1950s — 14.9% of all recorded uses (476).

Is Jacquelyne 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 1961 (66)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,094
1943

Spellings of Jacquelyne

Jacquelyne is not the most common spelling — Jacqueline is, with 75.1% against Jacquelyne's 0.56%.

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 Jacquelyne is used

Across 1910–2025, Jacquelyne was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 130,791 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 100,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in —

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

Jacquelyne around the world

Where Jacquelyne 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
    1960–1998
    #710
    in 1998

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

Jacquelyne in other languages

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

JacquelynJacquelineJacquelynne

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

Jacquelyne 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
#1,094
1943
Peak year
1961
66 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,184
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jacquelyne

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

JackelyneJacquelynnJacqulyneJackelineJacqualineJackelynJacklynnJacquelinJacqueleneJacelynJackelinJacintaJaclynnJacklyneKatheryneJacindaJacquettaJacelynnJacquilineJaclyneJackquelineMadelyneCarolyneJacquline

Names with a curve like Jacquelyne

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

JanettJanieceCarlynLaraeJanettaEllynJohnettaJannetteSulemaDennisJoycelynJulienne

Sibling names for Jacquelyne

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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