Meaning not yet researched.
Jackelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,074 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,074 in 2000; #13,887 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jackelyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,887 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #1,074.
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Jackelyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,074 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 193 (2000).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Jackelyn, making it the 13,887th most common girls’ name of the year, down 6,506 places from #7,381 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 15 girls named Jackelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,074, reached in 2000. That year also had the most girls given the name: 193. For comparison, it was #2,947 in 2015 and #4,967 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jackelyn in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 7 babies. In all, 3,896 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,413 babies named Jackelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 204 US girls were named Jackelyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jacquelyn (85,307 babies since 1880), Jackeline (6,534 babies since 1880), Jacalyn (5,185 babies since 1880) and Jacqulyn (3,958 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jackilynn and Jakelynn 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: Jackilynn (16), Jakelynn (5).
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 Jackelyn 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 | 6 | #13,887 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,381 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,888 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,784 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,074 | — | — |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,950 | — | — |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,056 | — | — |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,814 | — | — |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,433 | — | — |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,613 | — | — |
| 2015 | 59 | #2,947 | — | — |
| 2014 | 76 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 2011 | 120 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 2010 | 128 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 2009 | 160 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 2008 | 153 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 2007 | 151 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 2006 | 144 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 2005 | 127 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 2004 | 87 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 2003 | 131 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 2002 | 122 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 2001 | 145 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 2000 | 193 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1999 | 118 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1998 | 98 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1997 | 116 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 1996 | 102 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 1995 | 82 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1994 | 70 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 1993 | 66 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 1991 | 70 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,110 | — | — |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1988 | 58 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 1987 | 67 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,889 | — | — |
| 1984 | 61 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1982 | 68 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1981 | 52 | #2,014 | — | — |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,257 | — | — |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,138 | — | — |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,293 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,720 | — | — |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,009 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,825 | — | — |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,528 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,616 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,224 | — | — |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,334 | — | — |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,037 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,857 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,310 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,106 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,686 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,678 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,317 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,531 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,766 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,554 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,967 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,970 | — | — |
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).