Jacqualine
Feminine · “supplanter”
This name has been respelt at every position except the qu. The front vowel, the middle vowel, the ending and the final e have all been moved by one family or another; the qu has never budged, because it is the piece everyone recognizes as the point of the name.
How old is the name Jacqualine?
Jacqualine first appears in US birth records in 1922 — 103 years ago. The typical Jacqualine alive today was born around 1962, making them about 63 years old. About 1,800 people named Jacqualine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jacqualine most popular?
Jacqualine peaked in 1949, reaching #1201 nationally. See the whole 1949 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Jacques to Jacqualine
The story of Jacqualine
That is a general rule about respelling: the part of a name that carries its identity is the part nobody changes. In this name it is the qu, which is visually distinctive, French-looking and unambiguous. Everything around it is fair game — Jacqueline, Jacquelyn, Jacqulyn, Jacqualine, Jacquline, Jaqueline — and the record carries all of them. A name's identifying feature is not always its meaning or its origin; frequently it is simply the letters that make it recognizable at a glance, and families protect those without being able to say why.
Meaning
supplanter
The name is the feminine of the French form of Jacob and carries the Hebrew meaning through three languages. None of the respellings touches it.
How the name formed
- Jacques
- Jacqueline
- Jacqualine
Related forms: Jacqueline
Pronouncing Jacqualine
JAK-wuh-lin
Three syllables with the weight at the front. The changed vowel is unstressed and changes nothing.
Nicknames for Jacqualine
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1922
- Most girls named
- 196470 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1201reached in 1949
- Change vs 2005
- −25.0%6 in 2010, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jacqualine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jacqueline in French — spelling variant
Jacqualines among us
people named Jacqualine are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jacqualine sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Jackie is one of the most established short forms in English.
- It is read correctly at sight by anyone who has met the standard spelling.
- It sits behind one of the largest name families in Europe.
- There are at least six live spellings of this name and all of them will be tried on you.
- The changed vowel is silent, so the difference exists only on paper.
- It is a long name to write for a person who will mostly be called Jackie.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jacqualines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Jacqualine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jacqualine in 2025?
- Jacqualine is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Jacqualine with classmates?
- Jacqualine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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