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Jacqueline

Girls' name · Late 20th-century perennial

Living in the US
~344,900 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#558 among girls
Births in 2025
541 427,479 since 1880
Typical age
54 years, median

Jacqueline popularity over time

Jacqueline rank by birth year, 1891–2025Jacqueline ranked #1,093 in 1891 and #558 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #37, in 1961.#100#1,000#558best #37 in 19611920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1891–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1964: 12,023 births recorded as Jacqueline. 1891 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. Jacqueline has spent 75 years inside the national top 100.

In 2025 it ranked #558 with 541 births. Over ten years the count has fallen 56%. Year on year the rank improved by 27.

Babies named Jacqueline per yearPeaks at 12,023 births in 1964.12,023 in 196401920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Jacqueline?

Roughly 344,900 Jacquelines are alive in the US right now. That is out of 427,479 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Jacqueline?

The typical living Jacqueline is 54 years old. More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Jacqueline a late 20th-century perennial name.

Your Jacqueline

Ages of living people named JacquelineHalf of living Jacquelines are older than 54 and half younger.median 54020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Jacqueline is most common

The name is concentrated in Nevada, at 2.1× the national rate. California, Arizona and Texas follow.

Where Jacqueline is used more than average5 states use the name Jacqueline more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: 1.4× the national rateORNevada: 2.1× the national rateNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: 1.8× the national rateCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: 1.7× the national rateAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: 1.4× the national rateTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Jacqueline is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Nevada 98 2.1×
California 1,466 1.8×
Arizona 222 1.7×
Texas 1,036 1.4×
Oregon 90 1.4×

Jacqueline in England and Wales

ONS recorded 15 births named Jacqueline in 2025, ranking it #1,892. That is 29% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Jacqueline comes from

From French Jacqueline, a feminine diminutive form of Jacques (“James”), from Hebrew יעקב (“Jacob”), from the root עקב (“heel”), because the biblical patriarch Jacob was born just behind Esau, and was grasping Esau’s heel in an effort to prevent him from being born first.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Jacqueline

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963 1929–1994 101
Jacqueline Bisset English actress 1944 74
Jacqueline Fernandez Sri Lankan actress 1985 54
Jacqueline Boyer French singer 1941 45
Jacqueline du Pré British cellist 1945–1987 40
Jacqueline Wilson English novelist 1945 39
Jacqueline Cochran American aviator and businesswoman 1906–1980 34
Jacqueline Susann American writer and actress 1918–1974 29
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The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 5,670 in 1960 to 11,015 in 1961 — 1.9 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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