Jacqueline
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About Jacqueline
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.
Pronounced JAK-uh-leen; JAK-uh-line.
As of October 2026, Jacqueline ranked #558 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #37 in 1964, Nameberry popularity #177.
Editor's take: The name Jacqueline is a girl's name of French origin meaning "supplanter".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #248 | 1,309 | 732.8 |
| 2015 | #258 | 1,232 | 690.2 |
| 2016 | #280 | 1,134 | 639.9 |
| 2017 | #350 | 927 | 536.9 |
| 2018 | #340 | 941 | 553.2 |
| 2019 | #382 | 820 | 488.6 |
| 2020 | #443 | 696 | 430.5 |
| 2021 | #474 | 660 | 402.2 |
| 2022 | #504 | 627 | 382.3 |
| 2023 | #536 | 564 | 351.5 |
| 2024 | #589 | 510 | 314.8 |
| 2025 | #558 | 541 | 336.6 |
World rankings
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Jacqueline on lists
Famous Jacquelines
- 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"
Variations & nicknames
- JacquieFrench
- JakolinaEast European
- JacquenettaSwiss
- JaquettaItalian