Yaquelin
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- yah-keh-LEEN
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Yaquelin is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “holder of the heel”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Yaquelin mean?
Hebrew: Spanish respelling of Jacqueline
“holder of the heel”
Jacqueline is the French feminine of Jacques, the French form of Jacob and James.
Is Yaquelin a girl's or a boy's name?
Yaquelin is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yaquelin in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 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, 10 girls in the US were named Yaquelin, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2000, with 108 girls. It first appears in the records in 1980.
Half of all the girls named Yaquelin in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yaquelin in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,450 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,452 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,998 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,815 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,965 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,922 |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,368 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,485 |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,139 |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,924 |
| 2003 | 83 | #2,103 |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,043 |
| 2001 | 103 | #1,736 |
| 2000 | 108 | #1,630 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,365 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,350 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,974 |
| 1996 | 59 | #2,250 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,343 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,297 |
| 1993 | 19 | #4,992 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,001 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,943 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,297 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,154 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,560 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,139 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,093 |
Nicknames for Yaquelin
Names like Yaquelin
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Madison, Jordyn, Addison, Abigail, Mariah, Isabella, Madilyn, Jordan, Emerson, Yoselin, Annalise, Ariel
Names related to Yaquelin
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, “Yaquelin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yaquelin, updated 20 October 2026.