Meaning not yet researched.
Jacquelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 80 in 2025. Its best rank was #163 in 1951.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #163 in 1951; #2,286 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jacquelyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,286 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1951, at #163.
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Jacquelyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 80 girls in 2025. Peak: #163 in 1951 · most girls in one year: 1,906 (1951).
In 2025, 80 US girls were named Jacquelyn, making it the 2,286th most common girls’ name of the year, down 10 places from #2,276 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 82 girls named Jacquelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #163, reached in 1951. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,906. For comparison, it was #1,201 in 2015 and #167 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jacquelyn in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1907 with 9 babies. In all, 85,307 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 14,832 babies named Jacquelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,188 US girls were named Jacquelyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 165. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,091 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jacquelyn ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #2,002 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jacquelin (9,686 babies since 1880), Jacquelynn (5,095 babies since 1880), Jacquelyne (3,184 babies since 1880) and Jacqueline (427,479 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jacqualyn, Jacquilyn and Jacqulynn 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: Jacqualyn (1,053), Jacquilyn (342), Jacqulynn (329), Jaquelynn (268), Jackquelyn (259), Jaqualyn (107), Jackqulyn (81), Jaqulyn (72), Jacqualynn (71), Jacqueleen (67), Jacquilynn (19), Jackielyn (15), 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 Jacquelyn 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #2,002 | #2,214 |
| California | 10 | #2,008 | #820 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,115 | #859 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,286 | — | — |
| 2024 | 82 | #2,276 | — | — |
| 2023 | 92 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 2021 | 111 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 2020 | 119 | #1,708 | — | — |
| 2019 | 127 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 2018 | 149 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 2017 | 165 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 2016 | 156 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 2015 | 208 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 2014 | 248 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 2013 | 206 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 2012 | 246 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 2011 | 244 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 2010 | 308 | #867 | — | — |
| 2009 | 301 | #906 | — | — |
| 2008 | 361 | #800 | — | — |
| 2007 | 437 | #673 | — | — |
| 2006 | 429 | #670 | — | — |
| 2005 | 425 | #654 | — | — |
| 2004 | 443 | #619 | — | — |
| 2003 | 533 | #531 | — | — |
| 2002 | 621 | #459 | — | — |
| 2001 | 661 | #425 | — | — |
| 2000 | 831 | #359 | — | — |
| 1999 | 709 | #393 | — | — |
| 1998 | 759 | #372 | — | — |
| 1997 | 853 | #335 | — | — |
| 1996 | 907 | #311 | — | — |
| 1995 | 998 | #278 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,045 | #269 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,102 | #253 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,145 | #243 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,212 | #232 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,298 | #221 | 8 | #6,067 |
| 1989 | 1,365 | #197 | 5 | #8,415 |
| 1988 | 1,532 | #182 | 7 | #6,040 |
| 1987 | 1,467 | #189 | — | — |
| 1986 | 1,261 | #207 | — | — |
| 1985 | 1,360 | #197 | — | — |
| 1984 | 1,432 | #192 | — | — |
| 1983 | 1,377 | #194 | 7 | #5,140 |
| 1982 | 1,436 | #192 | 10 | #4,067 |
| 1981 | 1,148 | #225 | 5 | #6,691 |
| 1980 | 1,036 | #249 | — | — |
| 1979 | 932 | #260 | 5 | #6,458 |
| 1978 | 867 | #266 | 8 | #4,317 |
| 1977 | 727 | #323 | — | — |
| 1976 | 554 | #373 | — | — |
| 1975 | 601 | #357 | — | — |
| 1974 | 641 | #340 | — | — |
| 1973 | 593 | #357 | — | — |
| 1972 | 667 | #338 | — | — |
| 1971 | 804 | #328 | — | — |
| 1970 | 951 | #300 | 6 | #4,465 |
| 1969 | 955 | #293 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,021 | #264 | 6 | #3,899 |
| 1967 | 975 | #270 | 6 | #3,734 |
| 1966 | 1,022 | #263 | — | — |
| 1965 | 1,103 | #258 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,274 | #247 | 5 | #4,298 |
| 1963 | 1,098 | #272 | 6 | #3,815 |
| 1962 | 1,237 | #253 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,394 | #232 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,045 | #282 | — | — |
| 1959 | 976 | #289 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,109 | #264 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,195 | #248 | 6 | #3,745 |
| 1956 | 1,396 | #217 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,500 | #207 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,605 | #196 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,737 | #183 | 5 | #4,061 |
| 1952 | 1,673 | #182 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,906 | #163 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,724 | #167 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,440 | #190 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,421 | #193 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,390 | #192 | 5 | #3,988 |
| 1946 | 1,208 | #199 | — | — |
| 1945 | 949 | #205 | — | — |
| 1944 | 972 | #205 | 5 | #3,656 |
| 1943 | 943 | #213 | — | — |
| 1942 | 884 | #221 | 5 | #3,809 |
| 1941 | 782 | #222 | — | — |
| 1940 | 692 | #241 | — | — |
| 1939 | 725 | #230 | — | — |
| 1938 | 741 | #226 | — | — |
| 1937 | 711 | #228 | — | — |
| 1936 | 694 | #236 | — | — |
| 1935 | 679 | #241 | — | — |
| 1934 | 662 | #241 | — | — |
| 1933 | 628 | #241 | — | — |
| 1932 | 660 | #237 | — | — |
| 1931 | 645 | #236 | — | — |
| 1930 | 666 | #240 | — | — |
| 1929 | 545 | #274 | — | — |
| 1928 | 468 | #306 | — | — |
| 1927 | 487 | #305 | — | — |
| 1926 | 374 | #346 | — | — |
| 1925 | 305 | #392 | — | — |
| 1924 | 281 | #414 | — | — |
| 1923 | 233 | #446 | — | — |
| 1922 | 163 | #560 | — | — |
| 1921 | 92 | #763 | — | — |
| 1920 | 82 | #801 | — | — |
| 1919 | 65 | #872 | — | — |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1917 | 33 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,778 | — | — |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,658 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,272 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,451 | — | — |
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).