Entry № 4745 · French origin

Jaclyn Jaclyn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Supplanter"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "supplanter".

Jaclyn is a variant spelling of Jacqueline, meaning supplanter, or may God protect.

A fresh spelling of a well-loved name, it keeps the familiar sound with a look all its own.

Supplanter — a much-loved spelling.

The name in its native script.

Jaclyn
Transliteration
Jaclyn
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Jaclyn stands.

Jaclyn does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jaclyns before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Jaclyn.

The number behind Jaclyn.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jaclyn reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.