Jacquline
Feminine · “one who follows at the heel”
Jacquline keeps the hardest part of the French spelling and drops the easiest. The qu survives, which is the letter pair English readers stumble over; the e that separated it from the ending is gone, which collapses the name from four syllables to three. The result is a spelling that is harder to read and quicker to say.
How old is the name Jacquline?
Jacquline first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Jacquline alive today was born around 1964, making them about 61 years old. About 6,700 people named Jacquline are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jacquline most popular?
Jacquline peaked in 1964, reaching #493 nationally. See the whole 1964 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yaakov to Jacquline
The story of Jacquline
French makes women's names from men's by adding a diminutive ending, and Jacqueline has been doing that job since the Middle Ages. English borrowed it and never quite decided how to spell it, because the French qu and the French final e both do things English does not. American records contain Jacqueline, Jacquelyn, Jaquelin, Jacquline and a dozen more, and the variation is not carelessness — it is a language without a rule for the sounds it borrowed, writing down what it heard, differently each time.
Meaningscholars disagree
one who follows at the heel
Jacqueline is the French feminine of Jacques, which is James, which is Jacob, which is Hebrew Yaakov. The traditional reading takes it from the word for a heel, on the strength of the Genesis story about the twins; a competing account reads it as a shortened sentence name meaning may God protect. Neither has won. The chain of forms is documented at every step even though the final meaning is not.
How the name formed
- Yaakov
- Jacques
- Jacqueline
- Jacquline
Related forms: Jacqueline · Jacoba · Giacomina
Pronouncing Jacquline
JAK-wuh-lin
JAK-wuh-lin, three syllables in American English, stress at the front. The standard spelling is often given four, JAK-wuh-LEEN, following the French. This version's missing e nudges toward the shorter reading, which is the more common American one anyway.
Nicknames for Jacquline
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
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 1964390 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #493reached in 1964
- Change vs 2014
- 0.0%5 in 2018, from 5
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.
Jacquline in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jacqueline in French — same name
- Jacoba in Dutch — related form
- Giacomina in Italian — related form
Jacqulines among us
people named Jacquline 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
Jacquline 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 a ready short form that everyone already knows.
- The qu is kept, so the visible connection to Jacques survives.
- The name has a fully documented line back through French to Hebrew.
- Jacqueline is the standard spelling and this will be rewritten as that on nearly every document.
- The qu is the part readers hesitate over and it is the part this spelling keeps, so the name is still hard to write from hearing.
- At least four spellings are in common use and none is standard enough to be assumed.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jacqulines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,700 people named Jacquline are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jacquline in 2025?
- Jacquline is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Jacquline will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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