Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn was given to 80 girls in 2025, #2,286 among girls’ names; 85,307 Americans have been recorded with it since 1907 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 66,500 Americans named Jacquelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 36 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jacquelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jacquelyn?
#2,286 among girls’ names, 2025
Jacquelyn fell from #1,201 in 2015 to #2,286 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.05 per 1,000.
1,906 babies in 1951, the peak
Jacquelyn peaked in 1951, when 1,906 girls were given it, #163 among girls’ names. The 80 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,286 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 82 | #2,276 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 92 | #2,097 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,890 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 111 | #1,821 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 119 | #1,708 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 127 | #1,662 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 149 | #1,476 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 165 | #1,395 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 156 | #1,474 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 208 | #1,201 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 248 | #1,050 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 206 | #1,167 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 246 | #1,032 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 244 | #1,023 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 308 | #867 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 301 | #906 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 361 | #800 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 437 | #673 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 429 | #670 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 425 | #654 | 0.23 |
| 2004 | 443 | #619 | 0.24 |
| 2003 | 533 | #531 | 0.29 |
| 2002 | 621 | #459 | 0.35 |
| 2001 | 661 | #425 | 0.37 |
| 2000 | 831 | #359 | 0.46 |
| 1999 | 709 | #393 | 0.40 |
| 1998 | 759 | #372 | 0.43 |
| 1997 | 853 | #335 | 0.49 |
| 1996 | 907 | #311 | 0.52 |
| 1995 | 998 | #278 | 0.57 |
| 1994 | 1,045 | #269 | 0.59 |
| 1993 | 1,102 | #253 | 0.61 |
| 1992 | 1,145 | #243 | 0.62 |
| 1991 | 1,212 | #232 | 0.65 |
| 1990 | 1,298 | #221 | 0.68 |
| 1989 | 1,365 | #197 | 0.74 |
| 1988 | 1,532 | #182 | 0.86 |
| 1987 | 1,467 | #189 | 0.84 |
| 1986 | 1,261 | #207 | 0.74 |
| 1985 | 1,360 | #197 | 0.79 |
| 1984 | 1,432 | #192 | 0.85 |
| 1983 | 1,377 | #194 | 0.82 |
| 1982 | 1,436 | #192 | 0.85 |
| 1981 | 1,148 | #225 | 0.69 |
| 1980 | 1,036 | #249 | 0.62 |
| 1979 | 932 | #260 | 0.58 |
| 1978 | 867 | #266 | 0.57 |
| 1977 | 727 | #323 | 0.47 |
| 1976 | 554 | #373 | 0.38 |
| 1975 | 601 | #357 | 0.41 |
| 1974 | 641 | #340 | 0.44 |
| 1973 | 593 | #357 | 0.41 |
| 1972 | 667 | #338 | 0.44 |
| 1971 | 804 | #328 | 0.48 |
| 1970 | 951 | #300 | 0.54 |
| 1969 | 955 | #293 | 0.57 |
| 1968 | 1,021 | #264 | 0.62 |
| 1967 | 975 | #270 | 0.59 |
| 1966 | 1,022 | #263 | 0.60 |
| 1965 | 1,103 | #258 | 0.62 |
| 1964 | 1,274 | #247 | 0.67 |
| 1963 | 1,098 | #272 | 0.57 |
| 1962 | 1,237 | #253 | 0.63 |
| 1961 | 1,394 | #232 | 0.69 |
| 1960 | 1,045 | #282 | 0.52 |
| 1959 | 976 | #289 | 0.48 |
| 1958 | 1,109 | #264 | 0.55 |
| 1957 | 1,195 | #248 | 0.58 |
| 1956 | 1,396 | #217 | 0.70 |
| 1955 | 1,500 | #207 | 0.77 |
| 1954 | 1,605 | #196 | 0.83 |
| 1953 | 1,737 | #183 | 0.92 |
| 1952 | 1,673 | #182 | 0.90 |
| 1951 | 1,906 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 1950 | 1,724 | #167 | 1.0 |
| 1949 | 1,440 | #190 | 0.84 |
| 1948 | 1,421 | #193 | 0.84 |
| 1947 | 1,390 | #192 | 0.78 |
| 1946 | 1,208 | #199 | 0.77 |
| 1945 | 949 | #205 | 0.73 |
| 1944 | 972 | #205 | 0.73 |
| 1943 | 943 | #213 | 0.68 |
| 1942 | 884 | #221 | 0.65 |
| 1941 | 782 | #222 | 0.65 |
| 1940 | 692 | #241 | 0.61 |
| 1939 | 725 | #230 | 0.66 |
| 1938 | 741 | #226 | 0.67 |
| 1937 | 711 | #228 | 0.67 |
| 1936 | 694 | #236 | 0.67 |
| 1935 | 679 | #241 | 0.65 |
| 1934 | 662 | #241 | 0.63 |
| 1933 | 628 | #241 | 0.62 |
| 1932 | 660 | #237 | 0.62 |
| 1931 | 645 | #236 | 0.61 |
| 1930 | 666 | #240 | 0.59 |
| 1929 | 545 | #274 | 0.49 |
| 1928 | 468 | #306 | 0.41 |
| 1927 | 487 | #305 | 0.41 |
| 1926 | 374 | #346 | 0.32 |
| 1925 | 305 | #392 | 0.25 |
| 1924 | 281 | #414 | 0.23 |
| 1923 | 233 | #446 | 0.19 |
| 1922 | 163 | #560 | 0.14 |
| 1921 | 92 | #763 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 82 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1919 | 65 | #872 | 0.06 |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 33 | #1,269 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,714 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,272 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,778 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,200 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,658 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,272 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,077 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,262 | 0.01 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,451 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jacquelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jacquelyn has been given almost only to girls: 110 boys in 118 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jacquelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jacquelyn, and how old are they?
66,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 85,307 Americans ever recorded as Jacquelyn. The median Jacquelyn alive today is 50 years old; half are between 36 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 60,916 people named Jacquelyn (60,863 women and girls, 53 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 70,759 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 4,240 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20,300 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12,500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 19,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,840 |
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 Jacquelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Jacquelyn are California, Texas and New York, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8,216 | #2,008 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 6,100 | #2,115 | 1.0× |
| New York | 5,481 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 4,708 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 4,612 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 4,515 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 3,973 | #2,002 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 3,937 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 3,851 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 2,602 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Jacquelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jacquelyn is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 1.6 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 Jacquelyn 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 106,851 babies since 1880, Jacquelyn is the most given (80% of them). In 2025 it was given to 80 of their 102 babies (78%), again the most given.
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 Jacquelyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1900-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jacquelyne | 3,184 | |
| Jacqulyn | 3,958 | |
| Janett | 3,542 | |
| Jacqueline | 427,479 | |
| Jannette | 5,219 | |
| Joycelyn | 6,622 |
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 Jacquelyn and names like it
- Compare Jacquelyn and JacquelinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJacquelyn peaked in 1951.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jacquelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Jacquelyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jacquelyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.