Entry № 4756 · French origin

Jacqueline Jacqueline — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JAK-uh-lin /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Supplanter (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "supplanter (jacqueline kennedy onassis, first lady)".

Jacqueline is the French feminine of Jacques — from the Hebrew Yaʿaqov ("supplanter, holder of the heel"). Jacqueline du Pré (1945-1987) — English cellist; her 1965 recording of the Elgar Cello Concerto is among the most-recorded of any classical work. Jacqueline Woodson — American National Book Award winner.

Subject of countless 20th-century American culture profiles.

Supplanter (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Jacqueline
Transliteration
Jacqueline
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒæk.ə.lɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jacqueline stands.

Jacqueline 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.

Jacquelines before her.

Real people
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
US First Lady.
1929 – 1994
Jacqueline Bisset
British actress.
born 1944
Jacqueline du Pré
English cellist.
1945 – 1987
Jacqueline Woodson
American novelist.
born 1963
In fiction
Jacqueline
Various French literature.

Names connected to Jacqueline.

The number behind Jacqueline.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jacqueline reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.