Jacklin — girls' name
890 babies named Jacklin in U.S. Social Security records since 1924, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
16% of everyone ever named Jacklin was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Jacklin in 1988 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jacklin
The Social Security Administration has registered 890 babies named Jacklin between 1924 and 2013, spanning 90 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jacklin currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jacklin performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 145 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Jacklin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 57 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jacklin in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jacklin in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 890 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jacklin at a glance
Last recorded 2013Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jacklin popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2013–1924
- Peak year (1988)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 90 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2013.
890 total births across 90 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1988 with 25 births in a single year.
Jacklin by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 145 births that decade — 16% of Jacklin's all-time total
Jacklin decade highlights
- Peak decade 145 births
- Runner-up 141 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Jacklin's strongest decade
145 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 16% of all-time use.
Jacklin by state
Where Jacklin concentrates geographically — total births since 1924
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 57 | 6.4% |
57 of 890 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 6.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1924–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.