Jackelin
Jackelin was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,425 among girls’ names; 1,404 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,390 Americans named Jackelin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jackelin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jackelin?
#12,425 among girls’ names, 2025
Jackelin fell from #4,638 in 2015 to #12,425 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 4.4 per million.
87 babies in 2008, the peak
Jackelin peaked in 2008, when 87 girls were given it, #2,255 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,425 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,596 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,986 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,496 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,495 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,315 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,220 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,868 | 12.4 |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,638 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,134 | 20.2 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 25 | #5,382 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,018 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,426 | 26.7 |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,991 | 32.1 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,908 | 32.7 |
| 2008 | 87 | #2,255 | 46.0 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,624 | 36.4 |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,447 | 40.0 |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,064 | 28.1 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,659 | 33.8 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,647 | 32.8 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,390 | 37.3 |
| 2001 | 70 | #2,289 | 38.9 |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,191 | 39.6 |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,682 | 29.3 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,676 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,994 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,599 | 27.4 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,731 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,108 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,712 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,127 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,501 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,568 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,644 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,420 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,587 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,342 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,828 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,813 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,950 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,647 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,999 | 5.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,338 | 3.3 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,816 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,796 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jackelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jackelin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jackelin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jackelin, and how old are they?
1,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,404 Americans ever recorded as Jackelin. The median Jackelin alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,628 people named Jackelin (1,620 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,358 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 258 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 922 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 189 |
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 Jackelin born?
The states with the most babies named Jackelin are California, Texas and New York, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 380 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Texas | 201 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 38 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Jackelin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jackelin is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 2.0 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 Jackelin 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 27,771 babies since 1880, Jackelin is the fourth most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 107 babies (6.5%), the third 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 Jackelin
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 Jackelin and names like it
- Compare Jackelin and JacklynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJackelin peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jackelin since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jackelin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jackelin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.