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Yaqueline

Gender
Girl
Say it
yah-keh-LEEN
Origin
Hebrew

Yaqueline 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 Yaqueline mean?

Hebrew: Spanish-style spelling of Jacqueline, a French feminine form of Jacques (Jacob)

“holder of the heel”

Spanish-style spelling of Jacqueline, a French feminine form of Jacques, from the Hebrew Jacob.

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

Yaqueline is a girls' name.

How popular is Yaqueline in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2001, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.

Half of all the girls named Yaqueline in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.

1990Busiest: 24 in 20012012
Yaqueline in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20125#16,863
20110–
20107#13,442
200910#10,675
20088#12,574
200717#7,390
200613#8,711
200512#8,878
200411#9,259
200313#7,993
20025#15,426
200124#4,829
200022#5,146
199921#5,033
199812#7,527
19977#10,831
199615#6,059
19950–
19940–
19930–
19926#11,730
19910–
19906#11,403

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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, “Yaqueline: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yaqueline, updated 20 October 2026.