Jacqui
Jacqui is a given name, usually a diminutive form of Jacqueline or Jacquelyn. Notable people with the name include:Jacqui Abbott, female lead singer with the band The Beautiful South Jacqui Ainsley, English model from Southend in Essex Jacqui Briggs, fictional character from the Mortal Kombat series Jacqui Cooper, Australian freestyle skier Jacqui Cowderoy, former Australian alpine skier Jacqui…
- English
Meaning & Origin of Jacqui
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Jacqui is a given name, usually a diminutive form of Jacqueline or Jacquelyn. Notable people with the name include:Jacqui Abbott, female lead singer with the band The Beautiful South Jacqui Ainsley, English model from Southend in Essex Jacqui Briggs, fictional character from the Mortal Kombat series Jacqui Cooper, Australian freestyle skier Jacqui Cowderoy, former Australian alpine skier Jacqui…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Jacqui
Jacqui first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1945, with 8 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1961: 43 births, good for #1,741 nationwide. About 28% of every Jacqui on record arrived during the 1960s, its defining decade. Jacqui last appeared in the published SSA data in 2016, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 876 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1940s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Jacqui
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About the name Jacqui
Jacqui is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1945 and has accumulated 876 births in the dataset. Jacqui's peak popularity came in 1961 when it ranked #1,741. Use the chart and map above to compare Jacqui'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 .
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