Jacquetta
Feminine · “supplanter”
A woman with this name was accused of witchcraft and cleared by the king's council. Jacquetta of Luxembourg was the mother of a queen of England, which made her enemies; the charge involved a lead figure said to have been made for her, the case went before the council in 1470, and she was exonerated and had the exoneration entered on the record.
How old is the name Jacquetta?
Jacquetta first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Jacquetta alive today was born around 1970, making them about 55 years old. About 1,400 people named Jacquetta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jacquetta most popular?
Jacquetta peaked in 1938, reaching #1805 nationally. See the whole 1938 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Jacques to Jacquetta
The story of Jacquetta
English has no feminine of James and has to borrow one. French made Jacqueline and Jacquette from Jacques, Italian made Giacometta and Giacobbe's other relatives from Giacomo, and English — which has used James as a royal name for centuries — made nothing at all. The gap is odd enough to be worth noticing: John gave Joan, Jane, Janet and Jean, Henry gave Henrietta, Charles gave Charlotte, and James gave nothing an English speaker could use. So the feminines came in from across the Channel already assembled.
Meaningscholars disagree
supplanter, at some distance
The Hebrew name at the root is usually read this way, and the reading is disputed. Two languages and two suffixes stand between it and this form, so the sense arrives thin.
How the name formed
- Jacques
- Jacquette
- Jacquetta
Related forms: Jacquette · Giacometta
Pronouncing Jacquetta
jah-KET-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The cqu is French spelling and sounds as a plain k.
Nicknames for Jacquetta
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
- 1916
- Most girls named
- 198855 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1805reached in 1938
- Change vs 1998
- −61.5%5 in 2002, from 13
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.
Jacquetta in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jacquette in French — same name
- Giacometta in Italian — related form
Jacquettas among us
people named Jacquetta 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
Jacquetta 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
- It carries a genuine medieval history rather than an invented one.
- It offers short forms from either end with different registers.
- It is long and formal without being difficult to say.
- The spelling has to be dictated letter by letter every time.
- The meaning arrives at several removes and is disputed at the root.
- It is rare enough that most people will not have met it.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Jacquetta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Jacquetta is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Jacquetta will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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