Jacalyn
Jacalyn was last recorded in 2023, when 10 babies were given it; 5,185 Americans have been recorded with it between 1937 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,310 Americans named Jacalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 46 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jacalyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,882, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
482 babies in 1954, the peak
Jacalyn peaked in 1954, when 482 girls were given it, #394 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 10 | #9,882 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,459 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,239 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,364 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,898 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,681 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,913 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,659 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,902 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,006 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 30 | #4,721 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,156 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 26 | #4,988 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,590 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,016 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,578 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,086 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,006 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,277 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,993 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,315 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,813 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,121 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,949 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,837 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,245 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,240 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,577 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 49 | #2,277 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,122 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,354 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,326 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,060 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 50 | #2,032 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,229 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,872 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,403 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,885 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,588 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,271 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,025 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 24 | #2,997 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,921 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,590 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,243 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,862 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,915 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 44 | #1,877 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 56 | #1,524 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 64 | #1,378 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 82 | #1,187 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 84 | #1,174 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 74 | #1,299 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 63 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 100 | #1,083 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 97 | #1,116 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 70 | #1,317 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 69 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 77 | #1,214 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 113 | #976 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 140 | #839 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 341 | #495 | 0.17 |
| 1954 | 482 | #394 | 0.25 |
| 1953 | 437 | #411 | 0.23 |
| 1952 | 406 | #426 | 0.22 |
| 1951 | 345 | #443 | 0.19 |
| 1950 | 189 | #607 | 0.11 |
| 1949 | 113 | #824 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 64 | #1,118 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 77 | #1,009 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 84 | #913 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,811 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,855 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,290 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,648 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,006 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jacalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jacalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacalyn, and how old are they?
4,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 5,185 Americans ever recorded as Jacalyn. The median Jacalyn alive today is 68 years old; half are between 46 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 4,455 people named Jacalyn (4,450 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,567 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,560 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 680 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 606 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 409 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 32 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jacalyn born?
The states with the most babies named Jacalyn are New York, Michigan and Illinois, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 425 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 349 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 338 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 313 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 276 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 269 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 205 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 175 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 130 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Iowa | 81 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Jacalyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jacalyn is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1937 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jacalyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 84,946 babies since 1880, Jacalyn is the third most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 234 babies recorded by SSA was a Jacalyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jacalyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jacalyn and names like it
- Compare Jacalyn and JaclynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJacalyn peaked in 1954.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jacalyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Jacalyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jacalyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.