In 2025, 21 US girls were named Jacelyn, making it the 5,799th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,378 places from #4,421 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 32 girls named Jacelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,668, reached in 2013. That year also had the most girls given the name: 127. For comparison, it was #1,900 in 2015 and #4,488 in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Jacelyn, making it the 12,775th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #12,775, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 5. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jacelyn in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 7 babies. In all, 2,988 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 978 babies named Jacelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 537 US girls were named Jacelyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 84. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jacelynn (959 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jaselyn, Jazalyn and Jacilyn are summarised on this page.