Jacklynn
Jacklynn was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,397 among girls’ names; 2,370 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,230 Americans named Jacklynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 15 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacklynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jacklynn?
#4,397 among girls’ names, 2025
Jacklynn fell from #3,450 in 2015 to #4,397 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 19.9 per million.
64 babies in 2010, the peak
Jacklynn peaked in 2010, when 64 girls were given it, #2,764 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,397 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,866 | 13.0 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,682 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,070 | 21.9 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,962 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,484 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,702 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,272 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,072 | 30.7 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,810 | 22.6 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,450 | 25.8 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,135 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,233 | 28.5 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,552 | 25.6 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,068 | 31.3 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,764 | 36.0 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,531 | 25.0 |
| 2008 | 58 | #3,004 | 30.7 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,145 | 28.6 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,639 | 22.6 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,536 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,758 | 32.1 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,056 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,480 | 21.7 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,819 | 28.9 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,415 | 21.5 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,950 | 25.4 |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,740 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,946 | 23.6 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,600 | 27.4 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,111 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,552 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,618 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,648 | 24.9 |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,423 | 27.7 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,531 | 24.8 |
| 1989 | 57 | #2,148 | 30.9 |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,338 | 26.4 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,450 | 24.2 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,870 | 19.2 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,651 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,870 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,933 | 17.4 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,226 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,658 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,648 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,924 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,549 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,806 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,235 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,442 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,462 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,291 | 5.5 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,223 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,466 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,191 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,856 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,676 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,074 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,993 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,956 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,536 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,879 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,377 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,423 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,430 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,300 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,551 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,120 | 13.4 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,144 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,818 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,352 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,445 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,145 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,286 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,366 | 10.5 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,444 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 23 | #2,062 | 13.0 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,422 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,814 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,025 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,932 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,928 | 3.7 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,980 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,053 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,279 | 7.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacklynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jacklynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jacklynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacklynn, and how old are they?
2,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,370 Americans ever recorded as Jacklynn. The median Jacklynn alive today is 27 years old; half are between 15 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,822 people named Jacklynn (1,815 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,096 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 27 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 223 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 146 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 595 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 773 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 469 |
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 Jacklynn born?
The states with the most babies named Jacklynn are Texas, California and Michigan, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 213 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 164 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kentucky | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Jacklynn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jacklynn?
Jacklynn is a less common spelling of Jaclyn: SSA has recorded 2,370 Jacklynn and 49,734 Jaclyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 84,946 babies since 1880, Jacklynn is the seventh most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 234 babies (14%), 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 Jacklynn
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 Jacklynn and names like it
- Compare Jacklynn and JaclynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJacklynn peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jacklynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Jacklynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jacklynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.