Jakelin
Jakelin was last recorded in 2020, when 8 babies were given it; 639 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jakelin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jakelin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,504, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 2003, the peak
Jakelin peaked in 2003, when 50 girls were given it, #3,014 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 8 | #11,504 | 4.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,657 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,095 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,575 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,787 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,849 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,978 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,731 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,043 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,227 | 19.6 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 34 | #4,491 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,873 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,101 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,980 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,035 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,014 | 27.4 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,109 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,508 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,822 | 18.2 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,364 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,279 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,093 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,790 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,388 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,912 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,390 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,335 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,666 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,929 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,151 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jakelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jakelin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jakelin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jakelin, and how old are they?
An estimated 632 Americans named Jakelin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 18 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 615 people named Jakelin (599 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 627 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below 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).
Where are babies named Jakelin born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 107 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 55 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Jakelin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jakelin is most over-represented in California: since 1989 it was given 1.2 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 Jakelin 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 Jakelin?
Jakelin is a less common spelling of Jackelyn: SSA has recorded 639 Jakelin and 3,896 Jackelyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,590 babies since 1880, Jakelin is the fifth most given (6.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 39 babies recorded by SSA was a Jakelin (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jakelin
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 Jakelin and names like it
- Compare Jakelin and JackelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJakelin peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jakelin since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Jakelin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jakelin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.