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Jacqueline vs Jacquline

American parents have registered 427,479 Jacquelines since 1880, against 8,029 Jacqulines. Jacqueline is still ahead, with 541 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jacqueline Jacquline

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 1963, when Jacqueline had 8,600 and Jacquline had 307.

Side by side

  Jacqueline Jacquline
Total US births 427,4798,029
Most in one year 12,023390
Babies in 2025 541under 5
Estimated living today 338,0006,500
Median age today 5359
Peak year 19641964
Best rank 37th girls493rd girls
Rank in 2025 558thunranked
First recorded 18911915
Girls / boys 426,088 / 1,3918,029 / 0

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 Jacqulines 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: Jacqueline and Jacquline.