Jaquelyn
Jaquelyn was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,907 among girls’ names; 2,741 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,670 Americans named Jaquelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 18 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaquelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaquelyn?
#15,907 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaquelyn fell from #3,880 in 2015 to #15,907 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.8 to 3.1 per million.
127 babies in 2000, the peak
Jaquelyn peaked in 2000, when 127 girls were given it, #1,449 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,907 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,756 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,686 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,791 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,080 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,709 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,048 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,119 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,225 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,774 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,880 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,874 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,022 | 31.3 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,816 | 35.2 |
| 2011 | 71 | #2,540 | 40.4 |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,243 | 48.4 |
| 2009 | 98 | #2,078 | 53.3 |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,870 | 60.3 |
| 2007 | 115 | #1,843 | 59.8 |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,981 | 53.1 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,038 | 49.8 |
| 2004 | 94 | #1,974 | 51.2 |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,933 | 51.4 |
| 2002 | 108 | #1,698 | 60.1 |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,016 | 46.7 |
| 2000 | 127 | #1,449 | 69.9 |
| 1999 | 94 | #1,723 | 53.0 |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,130 | 38.5 |
| 1997 | 68 | #2,076 | 39.1 |
| 1996 | 79 | #1,847 | 45.1 |
| 1995 | 71 | #1,938 | 40.4 |
| 1994 | 69 | #2,030 | 38.6 |
| 1993 | 57 | #2,274 | 31.5 |
| 1992 | 66 | #2,057 | 35.8 |
| 1991 | 56 | #2,300 | 29.9 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,659 | 23.2 |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,284 | 28.2 |
| 1988 | 62 | #1,954 | 34.8 |
| 1987 | 40 | #2,542 | 23.0 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,801 | 19.8 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,455 | 23.2 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,175 | 16.0 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,008 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,934 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,779 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,896 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,704 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,028 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,137 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,543 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,618 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,942 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,231 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,924 | 6.6 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,197 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,601 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,977 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,914 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,687 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,018 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,122 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,969 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,638 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,693 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,329 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,194 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,309 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,914 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,176 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,975 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,141 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,175 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,803 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,864 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaquelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaquelyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaquelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaquelyn, and how old are they?
2,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,741 Americans ever recorded as Jaquelyn. The median Jaquelyn alive today is 25 years old; half are between 18 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 2,559 people named Jaquelyn (2,554 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,623 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 69 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 114 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 747 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,460 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 274 |
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 Jaquelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Jaquelyn are California, Texas and Illinois, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 619 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 445 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 69 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 64 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 41 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Mexico | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Jaquelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaquelyn is most over-represented in Texas: since 1944 it was given 1.8 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 Jaquelyn 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 Jaquelyn?
Jaquelyn is a less common spelling of Jacquelyn: SSA has recorded 2,741 Jaquelyn and 85,307 Jacquelyn since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 92,303 babies since 1880, Jaquelyn is the third most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 97 babies (5.2%), again the third 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 Jaquelyn
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 Jaquelyn and names like it
- Compare Jaquelyn and JacquelynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaquelyn peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaquelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Jaquelyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaquelyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.