Jacelyn
- #5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births
- #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Given to girls 99.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 127 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,983since 1949
Jacelyn over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Jacelyn has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,722 | 21 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,181 | 51 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,295 | 33 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,801 | 39 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,890 | 56 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,561 | 68 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,438 | 73 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,302 | 80 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,269 | 84 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,894 | 107 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,728 | 121 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,666 | 127 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,831 | 110 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,874 | 107 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,978 | 101 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,244 | 87 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,184 | 91 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,231 | 88 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,865 | 109 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,950 | 98 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,067 | 88 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,229 | 77 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,352 | 68 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,600 | 58 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,854 | 50 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,222 | 67 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,756 | 48 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,556 | 50 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,361 | 34 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,780 | 28 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,234 | 35 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,936 | 26 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,022 | 37 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,879 | 38 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,857 | 22 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,135 | 29 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,246 | 27 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,853 | 30 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,645 | 35 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,066 | 28 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,440 | 39 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,430 | 38 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,516 | 34 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,162 | 43 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | — | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
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| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | — | |
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| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 | — | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 | — | |
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| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,921 | 14 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,372 | 11 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 | — | |
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First appearance
1949
The first year at least five girls were named Jacelyn! It came in at #4,235, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1956, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Jacelyn is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Jacelyn in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Jacelyn
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 2,832 spots since 2020 (#2,890 → #5,722)
Rise & fade · girls
64 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 2013 at #1,666 (127 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 13,817
- Highest: 1 in 13,817 girls born in 2013 were named Jacelyn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 76,537 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 32.8% of all girls named Jacelyn (978) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 7 | #4,235 (1949) | #4,235 |
| 1950s | 75 | #2,921 (1953) | #4,407 |
| 1960s | 31 | #4,882 (1961) | #5,984 |
| 1970s | 170 | #2,162 (1977) | #5,305 |
| 1980s | 291 | #2,440 (1980) | #3,198 |
| 1990s | 385 | #2,222 (1999) | #3,227 |
| 2000s | 814 | #1,865 (2006) | #2,258 |
| 2010s | 978 | #1,666 (2013) | #2,054 |
| 2020s | 232 | #2,890 (2020) | #4,046 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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