girls:
425.2k births since 1891
#83 (99th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1923
#3239 (29th percentile)
overall:
426.6k births since 1891
#163 (98th percentile)
The name Jacqueline is the #163 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 426,566 recorded births since 1891. This represents the 97.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #83 (98.6% percentile) for all time with 425,175 births since 1891. For boys, it ranks #3,239 (29.3% percentile) for all time with 1,391 births since 1923.
Jacqueline first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1891 (1891 for girls and 1923 for boys). Birth data for Jacqueline is available in 131 out of the 133 years between 1891 and 2023 (131 years for girls and 84 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jacqueline has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jacqueline reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 95.4% percentile (ranked #37) with 5,287 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 6,118 births per million (ranked 95.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1996, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jacqueline ranks #474 for girls (50.0% percentile) with 320 births per million, which is 5.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jacqueline reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #618) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 24 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jacqueline".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Jacqueline. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.8% confident that Jacqueline is pronounced as JAK-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAK-wuh-lihn, at 31.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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