Given name
Jacquetta
“the supplanter”
Jacquetta is a variant of Jacqueline. In French use, Jacqueline carries the interpretation “the supplanter.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jacquetta is a variant of Jacqueline. In French use, Jacqueline carries the interpretation “the supplanter.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
Jacquetta is a diminutive of Giacomo.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jacquetta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,705
- 0 boys · 1,705 girls
- Most popular year
- 1988
- 55 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 55 in 1988. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,219 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.
Jacquetta’s family of names
Jacquetta is a diminutive of Giacomo. Jacquetta has a related form in Jacqueline.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Jacquetta
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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