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Jackqueline vs Jacqueline

American parents have registered 427,479 Jacquelines since 1880, against 1,375 Jackquelines. Jacqueline is still ahead, with 541 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jackqueline against Jacqueline, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jackqueline Jacqueline

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jacqueline has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1891 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1964, when Jackqueline had 73 and Jacqueline had 12,023.

Side by side

  Jackqueline Jacqueline
Total US births 1,375427,479
Most in one year 7312,023
Babies in 2025 under 5541
Estimated living today 1,200338,000
Median age today 5953
Peak year 19641964
Best rank 1,311th girls37th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked558th
First recorded 19221891
Girls / boys 1,375 / 0426,088 / 1,391

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jackquelines alive today are over 59; half the Jacquelines are over 53. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jackqueline and Jacqueline.