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Jaquelin

#8,572 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jaquelin has been given to 3,851 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #8,572 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 297 recorded.

Babies named Jaquelin, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaquelin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jaquelin means

Jaquelin is a given name.

The naming story behind Jaquelin

Wikidata records Jaquelin as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q105447588, 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, 3,851 girls were recorded with the name Jaquelin between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 297 in 2000; its best national rank was #769 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,226 in 2020 to #8,572 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,026 in 2015 to #8,572 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 Jaquelin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,572
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaquelin 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaquelin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaquelins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaquelin was born before 2003 — so the typical Jaquelin is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
55.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,834
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 55.4% of all recorded uses (2,134).

Is Jaquelin 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
−2,312
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,346
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,546
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.0%
Peak was 2000 (297)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#769
2000

Spellings of Jaquelin

Jaquelin is not the most common spelling — Jacqueline is, with 77.7% against Jaquelin's 0.70%.

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 Jaquelin is used

Across 1910–2025, Jaquelin was most concentrated in Nevada — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 40,575 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nevada1 in 14,286
  2. 2Arizona1 in 16,667
  3. 3California1 in 16,667
  4. 4Texas1 in 20,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 25,000
  6. 6New Mexico1 in 33,333
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 50,000

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

Jaquelin around the world

Where Jaquelin 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
    1946–1981
    #616
    in 1981

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

Notable people named Jaquelin

People whose public names include Jaquelin, 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.

Jaquelin by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,572
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,346
Best rank ever
#769
2000
Peak year
2000
297 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,851
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Jaquelin

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

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Names with a curve like Jaquelin

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

RiannaJalynAngelesGisselJoselineAidanHailyAlexysAbigayleNayelyMakailaSavana

Sibling names for Jaquelin

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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