| The girl name Jacquelyn [ 3 syll. jac-que-lyn, ja-cquel-yn ] is pronounced JHAEKWahLahN KEY. Jacquelyn's origin is Hebrew, and its use, English. Jacquelyn is a variant form of the French Jacqueline. Jacquelyn is an all-time favorite. Currently it is still rather popular as a baby girl name, but not as much as it was previously. The name rose in popularity from the 1910s up to the 1950s; prior to that, it was of only very light use. At the modest height of its usage in 1951, 0.103% of baby girls were given the name Jacquelyn. It was #163 in rank then. The baby name has fallen in popularity since then. In 2007, it ranked at #674 with a usage of 0.021%. Within the family of girl names directly linked to Jacquelyn, the French Jacqueline was the most frequently used. It was 6 times more frequently used than Jacquelyn in 2007. Baby names that sound like Jacquelyn include the French Jacqueline, the French Jaqueline, the English Jillian, the Dutch Jolien, the German Jolina, the English and German Josceline, the French and German Juliane, the English Julianne, the French Julienne, the English Gillian, the English Jacklyn, the English Jaclyn, the French Joceline, the English and German Jocelyn, the English Jolene, the German Joline, the German Joseline, the English Joselyn, the Dutch, English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish Juliana, the English Julianna, and the Italian Giuliana. KEY: Pronunciation for Jacquelyn: JH as in "gee (JH.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; W as in "we (W.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"
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