Jacquetta

Girls' name

Diminutive of Jacques

Jacquetta has been given to 1,705 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1988, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Jacquetta, 2002

1 in 747,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jacquetta: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Jacques

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jacquetta means

Jacquetta is a diminutive of Jacques.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jacquetta is used in English (British).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jacquetta → Jacques → Jacob. The family’s meaning is “he will/shall heel”, recorded in English with the source elements yaʿăqōḇ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jacques.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,705 girls were recorded with the name Jacquetta between 1916 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 55 in 1988; its best national rank was #1,834 in 1938.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jacquetta?

Jacquetta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002: 1 in 747,000; 5 of 3,737,275 births
Among girls only: 1 in 359,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2002: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 518,097 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jacquetta 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 2002 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 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacquetta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jacquettas were born

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

Median birth year: 1971; About 54 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 35.9%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 1,361; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (392).

Is Jacquetta 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1988 (55)
Years since peak: 37; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,834; 1938

Spellings of Jacquetta

Jacquetta is not the most common spelling — Marquetta is, with 37.8% against Jacquetta's 30.2%.

Marquetta37.8%2,130
Jacquetta30.2%1,705
Laquetta18.3%1,031
Jaquetta13.8%776

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 Jacquetta is used

Across 1910–2025, Jacquetta was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 328,753 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Maryland1 in 50,000
2South Carolina1 in 50,000
3North Carolina1 in 100,000
4Oklahoma1 in 100,000
5Georgia1 in —
6Louisiana1 in —
7Michigan1 in —
8New Jersey1 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. Jacquetta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jacquetta around the world

Where Jacquetta 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
1984–1987
#684
in 1987

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

Jacquetta 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: —
Best rank ever: #1,834; 1938
Peak year: 1988; 55 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 2002
All-time count: 1,705
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Jacquetta

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

Sibling names for Jacquetta

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

Cody Kandace Alyse Whitley Shantell Stephani Ashli Ashlie

For a brother

Darell Elizabeth Kelsey Garrick Derik Chaz Lauren Derrell

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