Jaqueline
Feminine · “heel-holder”
Jaqueline is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 15,508 girls against 23 boys since 1880.
Jaqueline is Jacqueline with the c removed — a French noble name simplified for English spelling, and the parent reaches the Hebrew patriarch through three languages.
How old is the name Jaqueline?
Jaqueline first appears in US birth records in 1923 — 102 years ago. The typical Jaqueline alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 15,000 people named Jaqueline are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jaqueline most popular?
Jaqueline peaked in 2000, reaching #268 nationally. Today it ranks #2607, 2,339 places below that high. See the whole 2000 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ya'aqov to Jaqueline
The story of Jaqueline
Jacqueline was a name of the French and Burgundian nobility — Jacqueline of Hainaut ruled three counties in the fifteenth century — and it came into English use in the twentieth, rising very sharply in the 1950s and 1960s. American families respelled it heavily, and Jaqueline appears in the registers in real numbers, peaking in the mid-1990s, largely through Hispanic families.
Meaning
heel-holder, supplanter
Through Jacqueline and Jacques, from the Latin Iacomus and so from the Hebrew Ya'aqov. Genesis explains it by the birth of twins, the younger gripping the elder's heel. French added -line to Jacques to make the feminine; the c is part of the French spelling of Jacques and this form drops it.
How the name formed
- Ya'aqov
- Jacques
- Jacqueline
- Jaqueline
Related forms: Jacqueline · Jaqueline · Jacquelyn
Pronouncing Jaqueline
JAK-uh-lin
Three syllables, stress on the first, in American use. Spanish says ha-ke-LEE-neh, which is quite different.
Nicknames for Jaqueline
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
- 1923
- Most girls named
- 20001,200 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #268reached in 2000
- Change vs 2023
- −2.9%66 in 2025, from 68
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.
Jaqueline in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jacqueline in French — spelling variant
- Jaqueline in Spanish — same name
- Jacquelyn in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Jaquelines among us
people named Jaqueline are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 24,353 born in 2025 was named Jaqueline
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jaqueline
- #2607
- Jaqueline on the 2025 chart
- #451
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jaqueline went to 66 girls in 2025, but Jacqueline is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 607, which makes it the 451st most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,156 places above the chart.
- Jacqueline541
- Jaqueline66
About 1 girl in 2,648 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 24,353 for Jaqueline 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 Angelia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jaqueline's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Angelia climbed just as high around 1966, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Angelia's path sketches the road Jaqueline is walking now.
Jaqueline 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
Where Jaqueline is headed
Jaqueline should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jaqueline beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jaqueline in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Jacqueline stands behind it as a documented French noble name with a deep record.
- The simplified spelling is easier for non-French readers.
- Jackie is available as a short form with an enormous independent record.
- Jacqueline is the standard spelling and this one reads as a variant.
- The English and Spanish pronunciations are far apart.
- It is closely dated to the 1990s in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jaquelines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 15,000 people named Jaqueline are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jaqueline?
- Jaqueline is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jacqueline is the more common one — 541 births in 2025 against 66 for Jaqueline.
- How popular is the name Jaqueline in 2025?
- Jaqueline ranks #2607 among US girl names in 2025, with 66 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jaqueline?
- About 1 in every 24,353 US girls born in 2025 was named Jaqueline — 66 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jaqueline with classmates?
- Jaqueline will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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