Jacquelin
Feminine · “Hebrew Yaakov”
The French peasant revolt of 1358 is called the Jacquerie because the nobles called every peasant Jacques. A generic first name became a term of contempt and then the name of an uprising.
How old is the name Jacquelin?
Jacquelin first appears in US birth records in 1913 — 112 years ago. The typical Jacquelin alive today was born around 1970, making them about 55 years old. About 7,700 people named Jacquelin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jacquelin most popular?
Jacquelin peaked in 1931, reaching #667 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 10,250 places below that high. See the whole 1931 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yaakov to Jacquelin
The story of Jacquelin
Jacques was so common in medieval France that it became the generic name for a peasant, and the phrase Jacques Bonhomme was used by the nobility for the countryman in general, with the condescension audible. When the peasants of the Beauvaisis rose in May 1358, in the chaos after the defeat at Poitiers and the capture of the king, the chroniclers called the rising the Jacquerie, and the word has meant a peasant revolt ever since. It lasted about two weeks and was put down with considerable slaughter. The name itself is the French form of James, and its feminine, Jacqueline, was in use from the thirteenth century, long before it became an American favorite in the twentieth.
Meaningscholars disagree
Hebrew Yaakov, of disputed meaning
Jacqueline is the French feminine of Jacques, the French form of James and Jacob, from Hebrew Yaakov. Jacquelin without the final e is an American spelling; the peak is 1931.
How the name formed
- Yaakov
- Jacques
- Jacqueline
- Jacquelin
Related forms: Jacqueline · Jacoba · Jacoba
Pronouncing Jacquelin
JAK-uh-lin
Three syllables, stress on the first. The French Jacqueline is zhak-LEEN with two.
Nicknames for Jacquelin
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
- 1913
- Most girls named
- 2000211 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #667reached in 1931
- Change vs 2023
- −33.3%8 in 2025, from 12
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.
Jacquelin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jacqueline in French — spelling variant
- Jacoba in Dutch — same name
- Jacoba in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Jacquelins among us
people named Jacquelin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Jacquelin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jacquelin
- #10917
- Jacquelin on the 2025 chart
- #841
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jacquelin went to 8 girls in 2025, but Jacquelyn, Jacquelynn and Jaquelin and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 119, which makes it the 841st most-given girls’ name of the year — 10,076 places above the chart.
- Jacquelyn80
- Jacquelynn14
- Jaquelin12
- Jacquelin8
- Jaquelyn5
About 1 girl in 13,506 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 200,908 for Jacquelin itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Zenobia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jacquelin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Zenobia climbed just as high around 1909, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Zenobia's path sketches the road Jacquelin is walking now.
Jacquelin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jacquelin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jacquelin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Jackie and Jacqui are two established short forms.
- The name behind it is one of the most widely borne in Europe.
- Three syllables with a firm opening beat.
- Jacqueline with the final e is the standard spelling.
- English and French pronunciations differ entirely.
- The 1931 peak dates this form.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jacquelins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 7,700 people named Jacquelin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jacquelin?
- Jacquelin is one of 5 recorded spellings. Jacquelyn is the more common one — 80 births in 2025 against 8 for Jacquelin.
- How popular is the name Jacquelin in 2025?
- Jacquelin ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jacquelin?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Jacquelin — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jacquelin with classmates?
- Jacquelin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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