Jacquelynn

#7,639 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jacquelynn has been given to 5,095 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #7,639 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 131 recorded.

Babies named Jacquelynn, 2025

1 in 237,000

Jacquelynn over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jacquelynn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jacquelynn means

Jacquelynn is a given name.

The naming story behind Jacquelynn

Wikidata records Jacquelynn as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q107522965, 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, 5,095 girls were recorded with the name Jacquelynn between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 131 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,081 in 1952.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,440 in 2020 to #7,639 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,729 in 2015 to #7,639 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 Jacquelynn?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 237,000; 14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 115,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #7,639; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 164,137 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jacquelynn 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacquelynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jacquelynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jacquelynn was born before 1982 — so the typical Jacquelynn is around 43 today.

Median birth year: 1982; About 43 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 19.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 14.9%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 4,353; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 19.1% of all recorded uses (972).

Is Jacquelynn 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: +3,882; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −1,199; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −1,910; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.61×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 10.7%; Peak was 1993 (131)
Years since peak: 32; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,081; 1952

Spellings of Jacquelynn

Jacquelynn is not the most common spelling — Jacqueline is, with 78.9% against Jacquelynn's 0.94%.

Jacqueline78.9%426,088
Jacquelyn15.8%85,197
Jacquelin1.8%9,686
Jacquelynn0.94%5,095
Jacqulyn0.73%3,958
Jacquelyne0.59%3,184
Jaquelyn0.51%2,741
Jacquelene0.24%1,302

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 Jacquelynn is used

Across 1910–2025, Jacquelynn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 61,750 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in 33,333
2Texas1 in 33,333
3Michigan1 in 50,000
4Ohio1 in 50,000
5Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
6Florida1 in 100,000
7Illinois1 in 100,000
8Minnesota1 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. Jacquelynn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jacquelynn around the world

Where Jacquelynn 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
1991–1991
#2,131
in 1991
South Australia
1972–1981
#616
in 1981

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.

Jacquelynn in other languages

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

Jacquelyn Jacquelynne

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

Jacquelynn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #7,639
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 1,199
Best rank ever: #1,081; 1952
Peak year: 1993; 131 that year
First recorded: 1921
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 5,095
Count in 2025: 14

Names similar to Jacquelynn

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

Names with a curve like Jacquelynn

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

Pricilla Carlyn Randa Dorian Janiece Marilu Elvia Tanna Nereida Portia Michal Nydia

Sibling names for Jacquelynn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shelbi Shelbie Kia Corrina Nikole Alexandrea Cinthia Kalyn

For a brother

Brandan Coty Trever Mitchel Samual Bradly Tylor Garrick

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