Jaclynn
Jaclynn was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,954 among girls’ names; 2,812 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,690 Americans named Jaclynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 23 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaclynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaclynn?
#6,954 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaclynn fell from #3,942 in 2015 to #6,954 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.3 to 10.0 per million.
98 babies in 1990, the peak
Jaclynn peaked in 1990, when 98 girls were given it, #1,555 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,954 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,649 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,678 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,706 | 13.4 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,461 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,074 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,210 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,606 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,977 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,380 | 18.6 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,942 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,387 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,368 | 18.8 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,741 | 23.8 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,180 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,786 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,405 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,038 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,407 | 17.7 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,331 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,330 | 24.9 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,533 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,253 | 24.6 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,109 | 25.6 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,976 | 26.7 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,826 | 28.1 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,868 | 26.5 |
| 1998 | 41 | #3,074 | 23.2 |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,631 | 27.6 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,212 | 34.8 |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,396 | 30.7 |
| 1994 | 52 | #2,437 | 29.1 |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,013 | 38.1 |
| 1992 | 86 | #1,729 | 46.6 |
| 1991 | 77 | #1,838 | 41.1 |
| 1990 | 98 | #1,555 | 51.6 |
| 1989 | 88 | #1,588 | 47.7 |
| 1988 | 88 | #1,523 | 49.4 |
| 1987 | 86 | #1,500 | 49.5 |
| 1986 | 62 | #1,823 | 36.1 |
| 1985 | 79 | #1,540 | 45.9 |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,519 | 44.5 |
| 1983 | 80 | #1,455 | 47.9 |
| 1982 | 82 | #1,464 | 48.4 |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,816 | 36.6 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,871 | 34.9 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,839 | 36.1 |
| 1978 | 67 | #1,603 | 43.7 |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,838 | 35.9 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,719 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,595 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,260 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,045 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,164 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,252 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,182 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,835 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,598 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,417 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,816 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,817 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,295 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,033 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,342 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,864 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,371 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,510 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,438 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,038 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,283 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,240 | 12.3 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,630 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,550 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,608 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,522 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,961 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,031 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,879 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,815 | 7.9 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,860 | 5.3 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,684 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaclynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaclynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaclynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaclynn, and how old are they?
2,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,812 Americans ever recorded as Jaclynn. The median Jaclynn alive today is 35 years old; half are between 23 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 2,227 people named Jaclynn (2,221 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,618 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 195 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 337 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 658 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 327 |
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 Jaclynn born?
The states with the most babies named Jaclynn are California, Texas and Illinois, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 240 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 186 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 95 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 70 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 59 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 50 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 10 | 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 Jaclynn 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 Jaclynn?
Jaclynn is a less common spelling of Jaclyn: SSA has recorded 2,812 Jaclynn and 49,734 Jaclyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 81,436 babies since 1880, Jaclynn is the fifth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 228 babies (7.0%), the sixth 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 Jaclynn
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 Jaclynn and names like it
- Compare Jaclynn and JaclynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJaclynn peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaclynn since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Jaclynn.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jaclynn alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.