The name Jaclyn is of Modern English origin, and is a variation of Jacqueline.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Jaclyn has been given to baby girls in recent years.
The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.
The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.
Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Jaclyn
Use of the Name Jaclyn for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years
50 Years
25 Years
10 Years
5 Years
2 Years
1 Year
43,886
43,700
37,008
6,710
2,566
862
401
The table below indicates the number of times the name Jaclyn has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004.
Jaclyn first appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1950, which is the first year shown on the table.
A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.
Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Jaclyn
Used as a Girl Name
Used as a Boy Name
Year
Rank
Count
Rank
Count
1950
984
86
1951
1952
1953
947
100
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
539
324
1977
148
1,938
1978
131
2,128
1979
124
2,302
1980
168
1,692
1981
158
1,808
1982
141
2,139
1983
126
2,386
1984
133
2,167
1985
122
2,384
1986
133
2,105
1987
116
2,401
1988
115
2,493
1989
138
2,217
1990
143
2,152
1991
161
1,825
1992
171
1,773
1993
196
1,498
1994
223
1,258
1995
256
1,088
1996
304
938
1997
357
771
1998
391
703
1999
429
644
2000
452
613
2001
482
576
2002
530
515
2003
592
461
2004
672
401
Totals:
43,886
0
During the last 125 years, parents have used Jaclyn as a girl's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a boy's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Jaclyn appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 31 times during the last 125 years.