Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Jackelin isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jackelin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,404
- 0 boys · 1,404 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 87 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,429 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −66%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,429 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 87 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,628 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jackelin’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jackelin
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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