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Jaqueline

#2,629 in 2025Girls' name

Heel, through Jacqueline

Jaqueline has been given to 15,531 babies in the U.S. since 1923. In 2025 it ranked #2,629 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 1,200 recorded.

Babies named Jaqueline, 2025

1 in 50,200

Jaqueline over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaqueline: meaning, origin, and history

Heel, through Jacqueline

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jaqueline means

Jaqueline belongs to the name family reached through Jaqueline → Jacqueline. Its meaning is “heel”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jaqueline is used in English, German and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jacqueline.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Jaqueline is pronounced /ʝakeˈlin/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15,508 girls were recorded with the name Jaqueline between 1923 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,200 in 2000; its best national rank was #268 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,479 in 2020 to #2,629 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,570 in 2015 to #2,629 in 2025.

In the United States, 23 boys were recorded with the name Jaqueline between 1989 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2000; its best national rank was #7,537 in 1990.

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 Jaqueline?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 50,200
66 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,629
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,818 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaqueline 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 34,818 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaqueline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaquelines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaqueline was born before 2000 — so the typical Jaqueline is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
15,227
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 42.2% of all recorded uses (6,548).

Is Jaqueline 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
−34
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−150
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,059
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.5%
Peak was 2000 (1,200)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#268
2000

Spellings of Jaqueline

Jaqueline is not the most common spelling — Jacqueline is, with 88.1% against Jaqueline's 3.2%.

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 Jaqueline is used

Across 2016–2025, Jaqueline was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 16,189 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 7,692
  2. 2California1 in 12,500
  3. 3Arizona1 in 25,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 33,333
  5. 5Colorado1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 50,000
  8. 8Wisconsin1 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.

Jaqueline around the world

Where Jaqueline 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.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2022
    #3,971
    in 2022
  • France
    1924–1941
    #974
    in 1941
  • Canada
    1991–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1945–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jaqueline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,629
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 150
Best rank ever
#268
2000
Peak year
2000
1,200 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15,508
Count in 2025
66

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,537
1990
Peak year
2000
7 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
23
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jaqueline

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

BernadineCelestineKathrineMarcelineJackelineClementineJaquelinKatharineMadeleineDelphineJeannineJaquelynCharmaineAugustineGermaineCatharineEmmalineMadelaineCoralineFrancineLoraineEvangelineAngelineYasmine

Names with a curve like Jaqueline

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

ReganKierstenCarlieKaleighLizbethYasminAyannaLeslyPerlaEmileePaolaHaleigh

Sibling names for Jaqueline

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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