Jacquie
Feminine · “supplanter”
Jacquie keeps the French spelling of a sound English would write with a k, and the name behind it was so ordinary in medieval France that it became the word for a peasant. When the countryside rose against the nobility in the fourteenth century, the rising was called the Jacquerie, after the nickname the nobles used for any farm laborer at all.
How old is the name Jacquie?
Jacquie first appears in US birth records in 1924 — 101 years ago. The typical Jacquie alive today was born around 1961, making them about 64 years old. About 1,200 people named Jacquie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jacquie most popular?
Jacquie peaked in 1962, reaching #1177 nationally. See the whole 1962 chart.
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Where it comes from
From A Hebrew name behind both Jacob and James to Jacquie
The story of Jacquie
The nickname was Jacques Bonhomme, roughly good fellow Jack, and it was what the French nobility called the peasantry collectively and dismissively. In the summer of thirteen fifty-eight, after plague, defeat and the capture of the king, the peasants north of Paris rose, burned manor houses and killed a number of lords, and the nobility put it down with considerable savagery within a few weeks. The word for the rising is still the standard term in French and English for a peasant revolt of that kind. It is a good illustration of how completely a name can saturate a population: a first name so common that it stops naming individuals and starts naming a class, which happened to this one in France and to John in England at almost the same time.
Meaningscholars disagree
supplanter
The parent name descends through Latin and Greek from the Hebrew name behind both Jacob and James, and the traditional reading connects it to a word about the heel or about supplanting. That reading is a pun made inside the biblical text rather than an etymology, and modern scholars treat it as such. The French feminine ending and the English respelling add nothing to the question.
How the name formed
- A Hebrew name behind both Jacob and James
- Jacques in French, and a byword for a peasant
- Jacqueline as the French feminine
- Jacquie as an English short form keeping the French letters
Related forms: Jacqueline · Giacoma · Jacoba
Pronouncing Jacquie
JAK-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. The cqu is French and spells a plain k; English would have written ck and been done with it, which is what the commoner spellings of this name do.
Nicknames for Jacquie
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
- 1924
- Most girls named
- 196287 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1177reached in 1962
- Change vs 1996
- +50.0%9 in 1999, 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.
Jacquie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jacqueline in French — related form
- Giacoma in Italian — related form
- Jacoba in Spanish — related form
Jacquies among us
people named Jacquie 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
Jacquie 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
- The sound is universally familiar and never needs explaining.
- The spelling keeps a visible link to the French original that the k spellings lose.
- It works as a full name and as a short form at once.
- Jackie and Jacki are both commoner and this spelling will be converted into one of them.
- The French letters are a permanent spelling-out on the telephone.
- It reads as a pet form, and some people will keep asking for the long version.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Jacquie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Jacquie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Jacquie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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