girls:
85.1k births since 1907
#410 (93rd percentile)
boys:
110 births since 1942
#4476 (2nd percentile)
overall:
85.2k births since 1907
#757 (90th percentile)
The name Jacquelyn is the #757 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 85,190 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 90.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #410 (92.8% percentile) for all time with 85,080 births since 1907. For boys, it ranks #4,476 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 110 births since 1942.
Jacquelyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (1907 for girls and 1942 for boys). Birth data for Jacquelyn is available in 116 out of the 117 years between 1907 and 2023 (116 years for girls and 18 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 Jacquelyn has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jacquelyn reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 77.8% percentile (ranked #180) with 797 births per million. The name was most common in 1951, with 1,031 births per million (ranked 76.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1988, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jacquelyn ranks #861 for girls (9.1% percentile) with 52 births per million, which is 5.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jacquelyn reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #686) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jacquelyn".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Jacquelyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.8% confident that Jacquelyn is pronounced as JAK-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAK-wuh-lihn, at 29.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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