Yakelin
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ya-KEH-lin
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Yakelin is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “supplanter”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Yakelin mean?
Hebrew: Spanish phonetic spelling of Jacqueline
“supplanter”
Jacqueline is the French feminine of Jacques, the French form of Jacob and James.
Is Yakelin a girl's or a boy's name?
Yakelin is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yakelin in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Yakelin, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2000, with 37 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.
Half of all the girls named Yakelin in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yakelin in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,205 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,380 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,535 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,140 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,212 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,810 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,523 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,283 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,413 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,067 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,021 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,522 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,864 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,864 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,526 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,509 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,045 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,483 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
Nicknames for Yakelin
- Yaki
Names like Yakelin
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Madilyn, Addison, Aylin, Madison, Jordyn, Isabella, Emerson, Dakota, Kennedy, Eden, Yoselin, Madelyn
Names related to Yakelin
More Hebrew names
Noah, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo
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, “Yakelin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yakelin, updated 20 October 2026.