How Many People Are Named Jaclyn?
people named Jaclyn are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 7,146 people in the US has this name
Based on 49,734 babies named Jaclyn in Social Security records from 1923 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
๐ Rare
Peak Year
2,502 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
๐ Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Contracted variant of JACQUELINE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Jaclyn in English. Counting Jaclyn and these spellings together, about 62,942 people alive in the US have the name.
โง Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Jaclyn (99.8%) were girls.
๐ฅ Age Distribution
The average person named Jaclyn alive today is about 37 years old, and 79% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 32 and 43 in 2025.
๐ Popularity Over Time
Jaclyn first appears in the records in 1923 and was given most often in 1988, to 2,502 babies. In 2025, 61 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1923 to 2025
๐ Rank History
Jaclyn has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #114, in 1988. In 2025 it ranked #2,790.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,790 |
| Best rank | #114 (1988) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #141 in the 1980s |
๐ State-Wise Distribution
People named Jaclyn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Jaclyn were born in New York than in any other state: about 5,766 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jaclyn was given 2.6 times as often in New Jersey, 1.8 times in Massachusetts and 1.8 times in New York.
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