Meaning not yet researched.
Jacklyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 68 in 2025. Its best rank was #454 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #454 in 1987; #2,570 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jacklyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,570 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #454.
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Jacklyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 68 girls in 2025. Peak: #454 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 488 (1987).
In 2025, 68 US girls were named Jacklyn, making it the 2,570th most common girls’ name of the year, up 297 places from #2,867 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 58 girls named Jacklyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #454, reached in 1987. That year also had the most girls given the name: 488. For comparison, it was #2,064 in 2015 and #671 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jacklyn in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 17,002 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 4,063 babies named Jacklyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 802 US girls were named Jacklyn; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 98. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jacklyn ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,287 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jaclyn (49,734 babies since 1880), Jaclynn (2,812 babies since 1880) and Jacklynn (2,370 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jackline, Jackleen and Jacklene 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: Jackline (342), Jackleen (48), Jacklene (33), Jacklynne (33).
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 Jacklyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,287 | #1,656 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,867 | — | — |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,296 | — | — |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,093 | — | — |
| 2021 | 87 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 2020 | 95 | #1,984 | — | — |
| 2019 | 98 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,169 | — | — |
| 2017 | 86 | #2,207 | — | — |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 2015 | 95 | #2,064 | — | — |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 2013 | 110 | #1,839 | — | — |
| 2012 | 117 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 2011 | 140 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 2010 | 155 | #1,459 | — | — |
| 2009 | 172 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 2008 | 157 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 2007 | 220 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 2006 | 199 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 2005 | 209 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 2004 | 216 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 2003 | 234 | #985 | — | — |
| 2002 | 188 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 2001 | 269 | #850 | — | — |
| 2000 | 282 | #806 | — | — |
| 1999 | 300 | #748 | — | — |
| 1998 | 277 | #776 | — | — |
| 1997 | 303 | #711 | — | — |
| 1996 | 380 | #602 | — | — |
| 1995 | 350 | #624 | — | — |
| 1994 | 396 | #578 | — | — |
| 1993 | 435 | #544 | — | — |
| 1992 | 440 | #536 | — | — |
| 1991 | 485 | #491 | — | — |
| 1990 | 440 | #540 | — | — |
| 1989 | 479 | #492 | 5 | #8,412 |
| 1988 | 481 | #470 | — | — |
| 1987 | 488 | #454 | — | — |
| 1986 | 447 | #480 | — | — |
| 1985 | 392 | #514 | — | — |
| 1984 | 395 | #502 | — | — |
| 1983 | 424 | #471 | — | — |
| 1982 | 382 | #521 | — | — |
| 1981 | 338 | #551 | — | — |
| 1980 | 232 | #721 | — | — |
| 1979 | 223 | #735 | — | — |
| 1978 | 227 | #698 | — | — |
| 1977 | 139 | #984 | — | — |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,807 | — | — |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 1972 | 40 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 1970 | 62 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1968 | 69 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 1967 | 70 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1966 | 93 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1965 | 92 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1964 | 122 | #952 | — | — |
| 1963 | 78 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1962 | 101 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 1961 | 166 | #818 | — | — |
| 1960 | 91 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1959 | 105 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1958 | 127 | #912 | — | — |
| 1957 | 142 | #852 | — | — |
| 1956 | 164 | #763 | — | — |
| 1955 | 157 | #760 | — | — |
| 1954 | 174 | #704 | — | — |
| 1953 | 191 | #647 | — | — |
| 1952 | 170 | #688 | — | — |
| 1951 | 173 | #665 | — | — |
| 1950 | 159 | #671 | — | — |
| 1949 | 150 | #687 | — | — |
| 1948 | 145 | #691 | — | — |
| 1947 | 158 | #671 | — | — |
| 1946 | 145 | #659 | — | — |
| 1945 | 117 | #691 | — | — |
| 1944 | 117 | #690 | — | — |
| 1943 | 104 | #758 | — | — |
| 1942 | 110 | #710 | — | — |
| 1941 | 65 | #914 | — | — |
| 1940 | 82 | #782 | — | — |
| 1939 | 62 | #891 | — | — |
| 1938 | 77 | #805 | — | — |
| 1937 | 104 | #667 | — | — |
| 1936 | 93 | #694 | — | — |
| 1935 | 54 | #952 | — | — |
| 1934 | 71 | #798 | — | — |
| 1933 | 56 | #908 | — | — |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1931 | 49 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1930 | 45 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1929 | 36 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,647 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,822 | — | — |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,320 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,659 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,922 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,421 | — | — |
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).