Jacquelyn

Where Jacquelyn comes from

Jacquelyn hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1907
    First appearance
    #1,384 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1948
    Jacquelyn Grant born
    American feminist and theologian
  3. 1951
    Peak, #163
    1,906 babies named Jacquelyn — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1970
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #300.
  5. 1991
    Jacquelyn Jablonski born
    American model
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jacquelyn Jablonski · American model, born 1991
  • Jacquelyn Grant · American feminist and theologian, born 1948
  • Jacquelyn Mitchard · American journalist, born 1956
  • Jacquelyn Gill · Paleoecologist, born 2000
  • Jacquelyn Frank · writer, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.