Jackalyn
Jackalyn is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Jackalyn
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Jackalyn is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Jackalyn
Jackalyn first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1942, with 10 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2006: 22 births, good for #5,906 nationwide. About 24% of every Jackalyn on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Jackalyn last appeared in the published SSA data in 2014, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 586 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1940s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Jackalyn
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About the name Jackalyn
Jackalyn is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1942 and has accumulated 586 births in the dataset. Jackalyn's peak popularity came in 2006 when it ranked #5,906. Use the chart and map above to compare Jackalyn's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.