Jacquelyne
Feminine · “supplanter”
Jacquelyne adds a silent e to an ending that had already had one taken off. French wrote -ine; American spelling cut it to -lyn; and then this version put a final e back on, so the name has been shortened and lengthened at the same point by two different sets of hands.
How old is the name Jacquelyne?
Jacquelyne first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Jacquelyne alive today was born around 1967, making them about 58 years old. About 2,600 people named Jacquelyne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jacquelyne most popular?
Jacquelyne peaked in 1943, reaching #1087 nationally. See the whole 1943 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Jacques to Jacquelyne
The story of Jacquelyne
The family splits at exactly the point where French stops. Everything up to the qu is French and stays put across every spelling; everything after it is English and moves freely. That is why the record carries Jacqueline, Jacquelyn, Jacquelyne, Jacqulyn and Jaclyn, all with the same front and none with the same back. The silent e in this one is doing what silent e usually does in English — marking the vowel before it as long — except that the vowel before it is not long, so the letter is a signal with nothing to signal. It has been in the American record for over a century all the same.
Meaning
supplanter
The name is the feminine of the French form of Jacob, and carries the Hebrew meaning through three languages. None of the ending changes touches it.
How the name formed
- Jacques
- Jacqueline
- Jacquelyne
Related forms: Jacqueline · Jacoba
Pronouncing Jacquelyne
JAK-wuh-lin
Three syllables with the weight at the front. The final e is silent, so this spelling and Jacquelyn are said identically.
Nicknames for Jacquelyne
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
- 1919
- Most girls named
- 196166 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1087reached in 1943
- Change vs 2018
- −16.7%5 in 2024, from 6
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.
Jacquelyne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jacqueline in French — same name
- Jacoba in Dutch — related form
Jacquelynes among us
people named Jacquelyne 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
Jacquelyne 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 and needs no explanation.
- 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 silent e adds no sound and no information.
- It is a long name to write for a person who will mostly be called Jackie.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jacquelynes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,600 people named Jacquelyne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jacquelyne in 2025?
- Jacquelyne is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Jacquelyne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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