Jaclyn
Jaclyn is a girl's name that peaked in 1988, when it was the 114th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,778th. About 48,000 Jaclyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jaclyn boys named Jaclyn
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 49,734
- Estimated living today
- 48,000
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1988
- Best rank
- 114th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,778th
- First recorded
- 1923
- Girls / boys
- 49,632 / 102
How old the living Jaclyns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 49,734 babies given the name since 1923, about 48,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 2,500 of them are children and 920 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jaclyns
- Jaclyn Smith (born 1945)American actress
- Jaclyn Jose (1963–2024)Filipino actress
- Jaclyn Linetsky (1986–2003)Canadian actress
- Jaclyn Narracott (born 1990)skeleton racer from Australia
- Jaclyn Victor (born 1978)Malaysian singer and actress
People named Jaclyn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jaclyn is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jaclyn is most concentrated in New Jersey (2.5×), New York (1.7×), Massachusetts (1.6×), Connecticut (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1988
The most popular girls’ names the year Jaclyn peaked:
Jaclyn elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland girls | Jaclyn | 332 | 163rd |
| England and Wales girls | Jaclyn | 21 | 2,701st |
| Ireland girls | Jaclyn | 7 | 458th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Jaclyn against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.