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Jaquelyn

#15,907 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Jacqueline

Jaquelyn has been given to 2,741 babies in the U.S. since 1944. In 2025 it ranked #15,907 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 127 recorded.

Babies named Jaquelyn, 2025

1 in 663,000

Jaquelyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaquelyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jacqueline

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jaquelyn means

Jaquelyn is a variant of Jacqueline.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jaquelyn is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.lɪn/ and /ˈd͡ʒæk.lɪn/ for Jaquelyn.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jaquelyn → Jacqueline. The family’s meaning is “heel”, recorded in English with the source elements ‘akev.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jacqueline.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,741 girls were recorded with the name Jaquelyn between 1944 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 127 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,449 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,709 in 2020 to #15,907 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,880 in 2015 to #15,907 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jaquelyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,907
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaquelyn 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaquelyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaquelyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaquelyn was born before 2001 — so the typical Jaquelyn is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,714
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (1,027).

Is Jaquelyn 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
−8,151
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,198
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−12,027
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.13×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.9%
Peak was 2000 (127)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,449
2000

Spellings of Jaquelyn

Jaquelyn is not the most common spelling — Jacquelyn is, with 55.0% against Jaquelyn's 1.8%.

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 Jaquelyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Jaquelyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 61,956 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 25,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Mexico1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Jaquelyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jaquelyn around the world

Where Jaquelyn 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
    1963–1995
    #712
    in 1995

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

Jaquelyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,907
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,198
Best rank ever
#1,449
2000
Peak year
2000
127 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,741
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Jaquelyn

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

JaquelinCherilynJosselynEmberlynJoscelynJessalynJackelynAmberlynJaqulynBlakelynMaddilynAngelynKaytlynAddelynJesslynLakelynJacelynWendolynAddalynJoycelynKendalynMarylynBrookelynJosslyn

Names with a curve like Jaquelyn

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

AlexsandraCailinKailiDeisyBrynneCatelynAshlinMyiaKarahJoscelynKyliRiana

Sibling names for Jaquelyn

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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