Meaning not yet researched.
Jaclyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 61 in 2025. Its best rank was #114 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #114 in 1988; #2,790 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jaclyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,790 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #114.
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Jaclyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 61 girls in 2025. Peak: #114 in 1988 · most girls in one year: 2,497 (1988).
In 2025, 61 US girls were named Jaclyn, making it the 2,790th most common girls’ name of the year, down 57 places from #2,733 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 63 girls named Jaclyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #114, reached in 1988. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,497. For comparison, it was #1,457 in 2015 and #984 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaclyn in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1923 with 7 babies. In all, 49,734 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 21,869 babies named Jaclyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,094 US girls were named Jaclyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 152. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,349 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jaclyn ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,605 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jacqueline (427,479 babies since 1880), Jaqueline (15,531 babies since 1880), Jacklyn (17,002 babies since 1880) and Jaclynn (2,812 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jacklin, Jacqlyn and Jaklyn 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: Jacklin (890), Jacqlyn (759), Jaklyn (254), Jaclin (153), Jaclyne (151), Jaclynne (149), Jacklyne (108), Jaclene (89), Jaqlyn (64), Jacqlynn (49), Jaklynn (47), Jacleen (30), and more.
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 Jaclyn 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,605 | #1,401 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,790 | — | — |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,733 | — | — |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,366 | — | — |
| 2022 | 86 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 2021 | 105 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 2020 | 118 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 2019 | 136 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 2018 | 146 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 2017 | 152 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 2016 | 150 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 2015 | 158 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 2014 | 152 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 2013 | 145 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 2012 | 171 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 2011 | 192 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 2010 | 176 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 2009 | 203 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 2008 | 194 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 2007 | 286 | #947 | — | — |
| 2006 | 315 | #852 | — | — |
| 2005 | 393 | #701 | — | — |
| 2004 | 408 | #674 | — | — |
| 2003 | 466 | #589 | — | — |
| 2002 | 521 | #529 | — | — |
| 2001 | 579 | #482 | — | — |
| 2000 | 614 | #452 | — | — |
| 1999 | 646 | #429 | — | — |
| 1998 | 703 | #391 | — | — |
| 1997 | 771 | #358 | — | — |
| 1996 | 940 | #303 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,090 | #256 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,257 | #225 | 5 | #9,389 |
| 1993 | 1,497 | #197 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,775 | #171 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,827 | #161 | — | — |
| 1990 | 2,155 | #143 | 8 | #6,066 |
| 1989 | 2,218 | #138 | 10 | #4,969 |
| 1988 | 2,497 | #114 | 5 | #7,752 |
| 1987 | 2,404 | #116 | 6 | #6,430 |
| 1986 | 2,103 | #133 | 8 | #5,056 |
| 1985 | 2,385 | #123 | 7 | #5,401 |
| 1984 | 2,168 | #134 | 7 | #5,198 |
| 1983 | 2,387 | #126 | 6 | #5,779 |
| 1982 | 2,139 | #141 | — | — |
| 1981 | 1,808 | #158 | 18 | #2,619 |
| 1980 | 1,693 | #168 | — | — |
| 1979 | 2,303 | #124 | 16 | #2,829 |
| 1978 | 2,129 | #131 | — | — |
| 1977 | 1,939 | #148 | 6 | #5,418 |
| 1976 | 325 | #539 | — | — |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 1973 | 58 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1969 | 104 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1968 | 88 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1967 | 70 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1966 | 67 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1965 | 65 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1964 | 64 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1963 | 71 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 1962 | 68 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 1961 | 70 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 1959 | 44 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 1958 | 50 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1957 | 78 | #1,196 | — | — |
| 1956 | 79 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1955 | 91 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1954 | 79 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1953 | 99 | #953 | — | — |
| 1952 | 78 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1951 | 69 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1950 | 86 | #984 | — | — |
| 1949 | 59 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1948 | 58 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1947 | 56 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1946 | 48 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1945 | 42 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1944 | 35 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,178 | — | — |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,186 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,523 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,589 | — | — |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,725 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,440 | — | — |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,160 | — | — |
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).