Jacqueline
Jacqueline is a girl's name that peaked in 1964, when it was the 37th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 558th. About 338,000 Jacquelines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 53.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jacqueline boys named Jacqueline
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 427,479
- Estimated living today
- 338,000
- Median age today
- 53
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 37th
- Rank in 2025
- 558th
- First recorded
- 1891
- Girls / boys
- 426,088 / 1,391
How old the living Jacquelines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 427,479 babies given the name since 1891, about 338,000 are alive — 79 in every hundred. Roughly 20,000 of them are children and 89,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1972 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
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 from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jacquelines
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994)First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963
- Jacqueline Bisset (born 1944)English actress
- Jacqueline Fernandez (born 1985)Sri Lankan actress
- Jacqueline Boyer (born 1941)French singer
- Jacqueline du Pré (1945–1987)British cellist
- Jacqueline Wilson (born 1945)English novelist
- Jacqueline Cochran (1906–1980)American aviator and businesswoman
- Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (1401–1436)Dutch noble
People named Jacqueline with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jacqueline is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jacqueline is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (2.1×), Rhode Island (1.5×), New Jersey (1.4×), New York (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular girls’ names the year Jacqueline peaked:
Jacqueline elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Jacqueline | 372,420 | 5th |
| Ireland girls | Jacqueline | 5,803 | 11th |
| New Zealand girls | Jacqueline | 5,559 | 11th |
| Scotland girls | Jacqueline | 4,767 | 11th |
| Austria girls | Jacqueline | 2,955 | 44th |
| England and Wales girls | Jacqueline | 882 | 349th |
| Italy girls | Jacqueline | 620 | — |
| Switzerland girls | Jacqueline | 219 | 192nd |
| Norway girls | Jacqueline | 204 | 274th |
| Belgium girls | Jacqueline | 169 | 499th |
| Poland girls | Jacqueline | 54 birth registrations | 284th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Jacqueline | 41 | 164th |
| France boys | Jacqueline | 5 | 815th |
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.
Jacqueline: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Jacqueline | 178 | 0.014% | 148th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Jacqueline | 24 | 0.006% | 286th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Jacqueline | 16 | 0.025% | 113th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Jacqueline | 1 | 0.027% | 7th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Jacqueline is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.02% of children were given it – 54 of them.
Jacqueline: rank by region
In 2025, Jacqueline was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jacqueline | 329 | 16 |
In 2024, Jacqueline was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Jacqueline | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Jacqueline appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (276th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jacqueline among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Jacqueline | 21,603 | 35,319 |
| the Netherlands boys | Jacqueline | — | 314 |
| Finland girls | Jacqueline | 60 | 123 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jacqueline lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 4,080 women called Jacqueline were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Jacqueline | 257 | 0.464 | 268 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Jacqueline | 399 | 0.388 | 297 |
| Palmas, Las | Jacqueline | 219 | 0.371 | 337 |
| Málaga | Jacqueline | 248 | 0.271 | 357 |
| Balears, Illes | Jacqueline | 163 | 0.260 | 359 |
| León | Jacqueline | 52 | 0.226 | 472 |
Listed in 49 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 3 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jacqueline against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.