Meaning not yet researched.
Jackelin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,195 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,195 in 2000; #12,429 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jackelin in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,429 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #2,195.
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Jackelin: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,195 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 87 (2008).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Jackelin, making it the 12,429th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #2,195, reached in 2000. The most girls given the name in a single year was 87, in 2008. For comparison, it was #4,639 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jackelin in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 1,404 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 676 babies named Jackelin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 99 US girls were named Jackelin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jacquelin (9,686 babies since 1880), Jackeline (6,534 babies since 1880), Jackelyn (3,896 babies since 1880) and Jaquelin (3,851 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jakylin are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jakylin (55).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jackelin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,429 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,601 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,991 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,501 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,499 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,320 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,224 | — | — |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,870 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,639 | — | — |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,136 | — | — |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,384 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,020 | — | — |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,427 | — | — |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,909 | — | — |
| 2008 | 87 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,624 | — | — |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,068 | — | — |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,663 | — | — |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,650 | — | — |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,393 | — | — |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,685 | — | — |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,997 | — | — |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,736 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,114 | — | — |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,718 | — | — |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,133 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,507 | — | — |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,573 | — | — |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,650 | — | — |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,425 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,592 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,346 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,831 | — | — |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,814 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,952 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,650 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,001 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,340 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,818 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,798 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).