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Jackelynn

Gender
Girl
Say it
JAK-e-lin
Origin
Hebrew

Jackelynn is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “holder of the heel”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Jackelynn mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Jackelyn; phonetic spelling of Jacqueline, feminine of Jacques (Jacob)

“holder of the heel”

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963.

Meaning borrowed from Jackelyn.

Is Jackelynn a girl's or a boy's name?

Jackelynn is a girls' name.

How popular is Jackelynn in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 10 girls. It first appears in the records in 1988.

Half of all the girls named Jackelynn in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

1988Busiest: 10 in 20112014
Jackelynn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20145#16,507
20130–
20127#13,477
201110#10,370
20107#13,442
20098#12,423
20089#11,594
20078#12,671
20066#15,147
20056#14,495
20040–
20035#15,777
20027#12,181
20018#11,013
20007#11,794
19996#12,681
19980–
19970–
19966#11,801
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19905#12,952
19895#12,356
19886#10,381

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jackelynn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jackelynn, updated 20 October 2026.