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Jacqulyn

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jacqulyn has been given to 3,958 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1952, with 95 recorded.

Babies named Jacqulyn, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jacqulyn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jacqulyn means

Jacqulyn is a given name.

The naming story behind Jacqulyn

Wikidata records Jacqulyn as a given name. The entity identifier is Q63437545, 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, 3,958 girls were recorded with the name Jacqulyn between 1923 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 95 in 1952; its best national rank was #970 in 1952.

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 Jacqulyn?

Jacqulyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jacqulyn 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jacqulyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jacqulyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jacqulyn was born before 1964 — so the typical Jacqulyn is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
18.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,956
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (725).

Is Jacqulyn 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 1952 (95)
Years since peak
73
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#970
1952

Spellings of Jacqulyn

Jacqulyn is not the most common spelling — Jacquelyn is, with 42.7% against Jacqulyn's 2.0%.

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 Jacqulyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Jacqulyn was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 120,666 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 50,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Missouri1 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. Jacqulyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jacqulyn around the world

Where Jacqulyn 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
    1945–1996
    #712
    in 1996

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

Notable people named Jacqulyn

People whose public names include Jacqulyn, 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.

Jacqulyn in other languages

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

Jacquelyn

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

Jacqulyn 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
#970
1952
Peak year
1952
95 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
3,958
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jacqulyn

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

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Names with a curve like Jacqulyn

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

JanettJannetteJanettaJohnettaLaraeRoseannaRandeeRandaJoycelynThomasinaEvonneJoline

Sibling names for Jacqulyn

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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