Jacelyn
Jacelyn is given to both girls and boys: 21 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,798 among girls’ names and #12,771 among boys’, #8,719 among all names counting both); 2,988 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,920 Americans named Jacelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jacelyn?
#5,798 among girls’ names, 2025
Jacelyn fell from #1,900 in 2015 to #5,798 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 59.9 to 13.1 per million.
127 babies in 2013, the peak
Jacelyn peaked in 2013, when 127 girls were given it, #1,668 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,798 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,419 | 19.8 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,204 | 31.8 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,317 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,832 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,907 | 34.6 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,575 | 40.5 |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,446 | 42.9 |
| 2017 | 80 | #2,308 | 46.3 |
| 2016 | 84 | #2,278 | 47.4 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 107 | #1,900 | 59.9 |
| 2014 | 121 | #1,733 | 67.7 |
| 2013 | 127 | #1,668 | 72.4 |
| 2012 | 110 | #1,841 | 62.5 |
| 2011 | 107 | #1,879 | 60.8 |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,982 | 56.8 |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,253 | 47.4 |
| 2008 | 91 | #2,193 | 48.1 |
| 2007 | 88 | #2,233 | 45.8 |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,870 | 57.3 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,953 | 53.0 |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,074 | 47.9 |
| 2003 | 77 | #2,233 | 42.1 |
| 2002 | 68 | #2,361 | 37.8 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,609 | 32.2 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,871 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,231 | 37.8 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,773 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 50 | #2,567 | 28.7 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,377 | 19.4 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,814 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,251 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,295 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,161 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,970 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,035 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,885 | 20.6 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,737 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,899 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,153 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,272 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,214 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,872 | 18.0 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,661 | 20.7 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,097 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,452 | 23.5 |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,444 | 23.7 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,531 | 22.2 |
| 1977 | 43 | #2,172 | 28.0 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,346 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,961 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,257 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,290 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,815 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,732 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,401 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,941 | 3.6 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,308 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,954 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,074 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,047 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,838 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,684 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,684 | 3.9 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,893 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,090 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,991 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,446 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,171 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,486 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,408 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jacelyn has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 71 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jacelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacelyn, and how old are they?
2,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,988 Americans ever recorded as Jacelyn. The median Jacelyn alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 2,237 people named Jacelyn (2,223 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,717 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 70 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 219 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 459 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 891 |
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 Jacelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Jacelyn are Texas, Louisiana and California, with 64% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 297 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 136 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| California | 118 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 47 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 36 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Mississippi | 32 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 31 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 28 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Jacelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jacelyn is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1949 it was given 2.6 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 Jacelyn 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 85,391 babies since 1880, Jacelyn is the fifth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 216 babies (12%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Jacelyn
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 Jacelyn and names like it
- Compare Jacelyn and JaclynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJacelyn peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jacelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Jacelyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jacelyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.