Jackquelyn
Jackquelyn was last recorded in 2006, when 6 babies were given it; 259 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jackquelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jackquelyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,884, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1963, the peak
Jackquelyn peaked in 1963, when 11 girls were given it, #4,113 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | #15,884 | 3.2 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,825 | 3.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,286 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,247 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,372 | 3.3 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,357 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,967 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,356 | 4.4 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,848 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,736 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 | #8,747 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,403 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,635 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,906 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,415 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,633 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,901 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,755 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,113 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,031 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,049 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,961 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,783 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,091 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,680 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,612 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,895 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,093 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,805 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,938 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,554 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,101 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,363 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,844 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,167 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jackquelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jackquelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jackquelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jackquelyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 220 Americans named Jackquelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 51 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 235 people named Jackquelyn (235 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 232 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Jackquelyn?
Jackquelyn is a less common spelling of Jacquelyn: SSA has recorded 259 Jackquelyn and 85,307 Jacquelyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 105,781 babies since 1880, Jackquelyn is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 102 babies recorded by SSA was a Jackquelyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacquelyn | 85,307 | 80 | 1951 |
| Jacquelin | 9,686 | 8 | 2000 |
| Jacquelynn | 5,095 | 14 | 1993 |
| Jacqulyn | 3,958 | under 5 | 1952 |
| Jacqualyn | 1,053 | under 5 | 1950 |
| Jacquilyn | 342 | under 5 | 1991 |
| Jackquelyn | 259 | under 5 | 1963 |
| Jackqulyn | 81 | under 5 | 1964 |
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 Jackquelyn
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 Jackquelyn and names like it
- Compare Jackquelyn and JacquelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJackquelyn peaked in 1963.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Jackquelyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jackquelyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.