Jaclyn
#2,778 for girls in 2025, 61 births · Last seen for boys in 1994 at #8,800
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1988 · 2,497 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 49,632since 1923
Jaclyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Jaclyn has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,778 | 61 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,722 | 63 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,352 | 77 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,193 | 86 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,885 | 105 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,716 | 118 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,569 | 136 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,497 | 146 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,475 | 152 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,512 | 150 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,454 | 158 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,471 | 152 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,514 | 145 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,364 | 171 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,244 | 192 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,336 | 176 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,228 | 203 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,281 | 194 | — | |
| 2007 | #947 | 286 | — | |
| 2006 | #851 | 315 | — | |
| 2005 | #700 | 393 | — | |
| 2004 | #674 | 408 | — | |
| 2003 | #589 | 466 | — | |
| 2002 | #528 | 521 | — | |
| 2001 | #481 | 579 | — | |
| 2000 | #452 | 614 | — | |
| 1999 | #429 | 646 | — | |
| 1998 | #391 | 703 | — | |
| 1997 | #357 | 771 | — | |
| 1996 | #303 | 940 | — | |
| 1995 | #256 | 1,090 | — | |
| 1994 | #225 | 1,257 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #197 | 1,497 | — | |
| 1992 | #171 | 1,775 | — | |
| 1991 | #161 | 1,827 | — | |
| 1990 | #143 | 2,155 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #138 | 2,218 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #114 | 2,497 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #116 | 2,404 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #133 | 2,103 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #122 | 2,385 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #134 | 2,168 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #126 | 2,387 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #141 | 2,139 | — | |
| 1981 | #158 | 1,808 | #2,569 | 18 |
| 1980 | #168 | 1,693 | — | |
| 1979 | #124 | 2,303 | #2,777 | 16 |
| 1978 | #131 | 2,129 | — | |
| 1977 | #148 | 1,939 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #537 | 325 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,807 | 51 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,254 | 35 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,589 | 58 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,771 | 49 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,730 | 52 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,369 | 76 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,087 | 104 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,147 | 88 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,299 | 70 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,320 | 67 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,366 | 65 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,405 | 64 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,305 | 71 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,344 | 68 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,327 | 70 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,725 | 43 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,643 | 44 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,512 | 50 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,193 | 78 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,169 | 79 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,055 | 91 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,108 | 79 | — | |
| 1953 | #948 | 99 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,067 | 78 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,116 | 69 | — | |
| 1950 | #978 | 86 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,183 | 59 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,185 | 58 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,204 | 56 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,239 | 48 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,232 | 42 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,364 | 35 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,625 | 27 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,630 | 26 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,750 | 21 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,591 | 24 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,797 | 19 | — | |
| 1938 | #1,547 | 24 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,679 | 21 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,741 | 19 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,305 | 13 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,913 | 17 | — | |
| 1933 | #1,773 | 19 | — | |
| 1932 | #2,130 | 15 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,594 | 23 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,055 | 9 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,394 | 8 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,436 | 8 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,859 | 11 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 | — | |
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| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,971 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jaclyn! It came in at #3,971, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1924–1925, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Jaclyn
- 56 spots since 2024 (#2,722 → #2,778)
- 1,062 spots since 2020 (#1,716 → #2,778)
- 1,324 spots since 2015 (#1,454 → #2,778)
- Biggest jump: 1,270 spots in 1976 (#1,807 → #537)
- Biggest drop: 334 spots in 2008 (#947 → #1,281)
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 1988 at #114 (2,497 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 1976–2007
- Highest: 1 in 697 girls born in 1979 were named Jaclyn (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,349 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #114 in 1988, was only 1 in 713 (0.14%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.9% of all girls named Jaclyn (21,802) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 47 | #2,859 (1927) | #3,714 |
| 1930s | 179 | #1,547 (1938) | #1,953 |
| 1940s | 396 | #1,183 (1949) | #1,400 |
| 1950s | 753 | #948 (1953) | #1,179 |
| 1960s | 710 | #1,087 (1969) | #1,333 |
| 1970s | 7,017 | #124 (1979) | #1,146 |
| 1980s | 21,802 | #114 (1988) | #135 |
| 1990s | 12,661 | #143 (1990) | #263 |
| 2000s | 3,979 | #452 (2000) | #773 |
| 2010s | 1,578 | #1,244 (2011) | #1,444 |
| 2020s | 510 | #1,716 (2020) | #2,274 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jaclyn in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 713 of them was named Jaclyn, which outranked 99.2% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 382,857 of them was named Jaclyn, which outranked 14.4% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,225 names at #7,270; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.