Girl
Jacquelyn
As a girl's name, Jacquelyn is understood to mean "Feminine of Jacques/James". It is not as common as it was in the 1950s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. The registry counts around 84,437 U.S. births under this name going back to 1900.
EtymologyFeminine of Jacques/James
HebrewHebrew – "supplanter"
Births by decade
1900s
20
1910s
241
1920s
3,030
1930s
6,811
1940s
10,696
1950s
14,831
1960s
11,146
1970s
7,357
1980s
13,450
1990s
10,036
2000s
5,041
2010s
1,778
Peaked in the 1950s · 84,437 total U.S. births since 1900