Jacklyn
Jacklyn was given to 68 girls in 2025, #2,570 among girls’ names; 17,002 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,000 Americans named Jacklyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 27 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacklyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jacklyn?
#2,570 among girls’ names, 2025
Jacklyn fell from #2,064 in 2015 to #2,570 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 53.2 to 42.3 per million.
488 babies in 1987, the peak
Jacklyn peaked in 1987, when 488 girls were given it, #454 among girls’ names. The 68 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,570 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,867 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,296 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,093 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 87 | #2,160 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 95 | #1,984 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 98 | #1,979 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,169 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 86 | #2,207 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,157 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #2,064 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,206 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 110 | #1,839 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 117 | #1,768 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 140 | #1,566 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 155 | #1,459 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 172 | #1,380 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 157 | #1,489 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 220 | #1,164 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 199 | #1,210 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 209 | #1,126 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 216 | #1,069 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 234 | #984 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 188 | #1,112 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 269 | #850 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 282 | #806 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 300 | #747 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 277 | #776 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 303 | #711 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 380 | #602 | 0.22 |
| 1995 | 350 | #624 | 0.20 |
| 1994 | 396 | #578 | 0.22 |
| 1993 | 435 | #544 | 0.24 |
| 1992 | 440 | #536 | 0.24 |
| 1991 | 485 | #491 | 0.26 |
| 1990 | 440 | #539 | 0.23 |
| 1989 | 479 | #492 | 0.26 |
| 1988 | 481 | #470 | 0.27 |
| 1987 | 488 | #454 | 0.28 |
| 1986 | 447 | #480 | 0.26 |
| 1985 | 392 | #514 | 0.23 |
| 1984 | 395 | #502 | 0.23 |
| 1983 | 424 | #471 | 0.25 |
| 1982 | 382 | #521 | 0.23 |
| 1981 | 338 | #551 | 0.20 |
| 1980 | 232 | #721 | 0.14 |
| 1979 | 223 | #735 | 0.14 |
| 1978 | 227 | #698 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 139 | #984 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,074 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,999 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,807 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,988 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 40 | #2,001 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,738 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 62 | #1,563 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,580 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 69 | #1,336 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 70 | #1,307 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 93 | #1,091 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 92 | #1,091 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 122 | #952 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 78 | #1,243 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 101 | #1,077 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 166 | #818 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 91 | #1,138 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 105 | #1,040 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 127 | #911 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 142 | #851 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 164 | #762 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 157 | #759 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 174 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1953 | 191 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 170 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1951 | 173 | #664 | 0.10 |
| 1950 | 159 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1949 | 150 | #686 | 0.09 |
| 1948 | 145 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1947 | 158 | #671 | 0.09 |
| 1946 | 145 | #659 | 0.09 |
| 1945 | 117 | #691 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 117 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 104 | #758 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 110 | #710 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 65 | #914 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 82 | #782 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 62 | #891 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 77 | #805 | 0.07 |
| 1937 | 104 | #667 | 0.10 |
| 1936 | 93 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1935 | 54 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 71 | #798 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 56 | #908 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,226 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 49 | #1,003 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 45 | #1,105 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 36 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,522 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,413 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,750 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,968 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,178 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,647 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,820 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,329 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,318 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,657 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,920 | under 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,419 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacklyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jacklyn has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 109 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jacklyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacklyn, and how old are they?
15,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 17,002 Americans ever recorded as Jacklyn. The median Jacklyn alive today is 37 years old; half are between 27 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 14,492 people named Jacklyn (14,460 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,146 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 463 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,080 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,430 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,570 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,090 |
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 Jacklyn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,287 | 1.2× |
Where Jacklyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jacklyn is most over-represented in California: since 1913 it was given 1.2 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 Jacklyn 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, Jacklyn is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 68 of their 216 babies (31%), the 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 Jacklyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jacquelynn | 5,095 | |
| Marilu | 2,279 | |
| Lauran | 1,468 | |
| Kandyce | 1,428 | |
| Nicholette | 1,297 | |
| Jaclynn | 2,812 |
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 Jacklyn and names like it
- Compare Jacklyn and JaclynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJacklyn peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jacklyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Jacklyn.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jacklyn alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.