Jaclyn
Jaclyn was given to 61 girls in 2025, #2,790 among girls’ names; 49,734 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 47,700 Americans named Jaclyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaclyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaclyn?
#2,790 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaclyn fell from #1,457 in 2015 to #2,790 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 88.5 to 38.0 per million.
2,502 babies in 1988, the peak
Jaclyn peaked in 1988, when 2,502 babies were given it (2,497 girls, #114 among girls’ names). The 61 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,790 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,733 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,366 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 86 | #2,198 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 105 | #1,890 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 118 | #1,718 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 136 | #1,577 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 146 | #1,499 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 152 | #1,476 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 150 | #1,512 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 158 | #1,457 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 152 | #1,475 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 145 | #1,516 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 171 | #1,367 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 192 | #1,245 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 176 | #1,340 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 203 | #1,228 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 194 | #1,282 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 286 | #947 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 315 | #852 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 393 | #701 | 0.21 |
| 2004 | 408 | #674 | 0.22 |
| 2003 | 466 | #589 | 0.26 |
| 2002 | 521 | #529 | 0.29 |
| 2001 | 579 | #482 | 0.32 |
| 2000 | 614 | #452 | 0.34 |
| 1999 | 646 | #429 | 0.36 |
| 1998 | 703 | #391 | 0.40 |
| 1997 | 771 | #358 | 0.44 |
| 1996 | 940 | #303 | 0.54 |
| 1995 | 1,090 | #256 | 0.62 |
| 1994 | 1,257 | #225 | 0.70 |
| 1993 | 1,497 | #197 | 0.83 |
| 1992 | 1,775 | #171 | 1.0 |
| 1991 | 1,827 | #161 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 2,155 | #143 | 1.1 |
| 1989 | 2,218 | #138 | 1.2 |
| 1988 | 2,497 | #114 | 1.4 |
| 1987 | 2,404 | #116 | 1.4 |
| 1986 | 2,103 | #133 | 1.2 |
| 1985 | 2,385 | #123 | 1.4 |
| 1984 | 2,168 | #134 | 1.3 |
| 1983 | 2,387 | #126 | 1.4 |
| 1982 | 2,139 | #141 | 1.3 |
| 1981 | 1,808 | #158 | 1.1 |
| 1980 | 1,693 | #168 | 1.0 |
| 1979 | 2,303 | #124 | 1.4 |
| 1978 | 2,129 | #131 | 1.4 |
| 1977 | 1,939 | #148 | 1.3 |
| 1976 | 325 | #539 | 0.22 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,815 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,269 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 58 | #1,595 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,776 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,739 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,375 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 104 | #1,091 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 88 | #1,149 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 70 | #1,308 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 67 | #1,328 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 65 | #1,374 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 64 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 71 | #1,311 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 68 | #1,344 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 70 | #1,333 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,733 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 44 | #1,654 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 50 | #1,518 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 78 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 79 | #1,171 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 91 | #1,055 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 79 | #1,113 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 99 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 78 | #1,067 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 69 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 86 | #983 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 59 | #1,184 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 58 | #1,188 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 56 | #1,208 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 48 | #1,246 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 42 | #1,240 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 35 | #1,373 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,639 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,645 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,771 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,608 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,833 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,571 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,701 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,766 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,359 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,954 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,803 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,177 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,609 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,184 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,521 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,587 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,941 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,724 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,438 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,159 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaclyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaclyn has been given almost only to girls: 102 boys in 102 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jaclyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaclyn, and how old are they?
47,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 49,734 Americans ever recorded as Jaclyn. The median Jaclyn alive today is 39 years old; half are between 33 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 43,408 people named Jaclyn (43,367 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 47,786 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 132 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,670 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 29,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,560 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,540 |
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 Jaclyn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,605 | 0.8× |
Where Jaclyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaclyn is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1923 it was given 2.3 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 Jaclyn 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 84,946 babies since 1880, Jaclyn is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 234 babies (26%), the second 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 Jaclyn
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 Jaclyn and names like it
- Compare Jaclyn and JacklynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJaclyn peaked in 1988.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaclyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Jaclyn.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jaclyn alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.