Jacqueline

French, feminine diminutive of Jacques
"supplanter"

Jacqueline Origin and Meaning

The name Jacqueline is a girl's name of French origin meaning "supplanter".

Jacqueline originated as a feminine form of Jacques, the French variation of James, and therefore Jacob. Jacob was ultimately derived from the Hebrew name Ya’aqov, and gets its meaning, "supplanter" from the story of Jacob supplanting his brother Esau as the first-born son in the Bible. Jacqueline was first used in France in the Middle Ages.

To most Americans, the French Jacqueline still recalls the Kennedy era and its elegant First Lady, although it's lost a good measure of its glamorous image and Gallic gloss. Jacqueline and Jackie peaked as names in 1961, the age of Camelot, reaching a high of Number 37.

The name was imported into England by a French sister-in-law of Henry V (known as Dame Jack) and had reached the Top 50 in this country by the 1920s. It's one of those names with a bunch of different spellings, the most common of which is Jacqueline.

Barbara Walters named her only child Jacqueline.

# 539 in the US

Jacqueline Rank in US Top 1000

# 345 on Nameberry

Jacqueline Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Jacqueline Popularity

Famous People Named Jacqueline

  • Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
    former First Lady of the United States as wife of President John F. Kennedy
  • Jacqueline "Jackie" Evancho
    American child opera singer
  • Jacqueline Emerson
    American singer/actress
  • Jacqueline Laurita
    American reality TV personality, "Real Housewives of New Jersey"
  • Jacqueline "Jackie" Joyner
    Kersee, American Olympic heptathlete
  • Jacqueline Wilson
    British author
  • Jacqueline Carey
    American author
  • Jacqueline Hennessy
    Canadian TV presenter; twin sister Jill Hennessy
  • Jacqueline Samantha "Jackie" Sandler
    American actress and wife of Adam Sandler
  • Jacqueline Léonore Léopoldine de Lannoy
    Princess de Ligne
  • Jacqueline Joe
    New Zealand actress
  • Jacqueline Mary Jossa
    English Actress
  • (Winifred) Jacqueline Fraser Bisset
    English actress
  • Jacqueline Jill "Jackie" Collins
    English novelist
  • Jacqueline DeLois Moore
    American pro wrestler
  • Jacqueline Mary du Pré
    English cellist
  • Jacqueline Rayner
    English novelist
  • Jacqueline Susann
    American novelist
  • Jacqueline Fernandez
    Bollywood actress and Miss Sri Lanka Universe 2006
  • Jacqueline Cochran (born Bessie Lee Pittman)
    American aviatrix
  • Jacqueline Dena Guber (b. 1968)
    daughter of journalist Barbara Walters and Lee Guber
  • Jacqueline Donovan (b. 2000)
    stillborn daughter of basketball coach Billy Donovan
  • Jacqueline Jean Messier (b. 2005)
    daughter of ice hockey player Mark Messier

Jacqueline in Pop Culture

  • Jacqueline "Jack" Barrett
    character on TV's "Jack & Jill"
  • Jacqueline
    character in "Le Medecin malgre lui" by Moliere
  • Jacqueline Andrea Suzette "Jackie" Tyler
    character on TV's "Doctor Who"
  • Jacqueline Beulah "Jackie" Burkhart
    character on TV's "That 70's Show"
  • Jacqueline "Jackie" Wilcox
    character on TV's "Heroes"
  • Jacqueline "Jackie" Marone Knight
    character on American soap "The Bold and the Beautiful"
  • "Jacqueline"
    song by Franz Ferdinand
  • Jacqueline Voorhees
    character from TV series "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"
  • Jacqueline "Jacqui" Briggs
    character in video game series "Mortal Kombat"
  • Jacqueline "Jackie"
    main character from "Cyberchase"
  • 'Jacqueline'
    song by Bobby Helms
  • Jacqueline Bouvier née Gurney
    Marge Simpson, Selma Bouvier, and Patty Bouvier’s mother from The Simpsons
  • Jacqueline "Jack" Sloane
    character on TV series "NCIS"