Jacqueline
The Latin root means "supplanter", one who takes another's place. It stays rare in Poland: fewer than 500 women carry it, and no baby girls received it last year.
Jacqueline Pronunciation
What Jacqueline means
Where Jacqueline comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jacqueline reaches Polish ears by way of France, the feminine of the name Jacques. Behind Jacques stands the Latin Iacobus, the form that carried the biblical Jacob into Europe. The old Hebrew root gave it the sense of one who supplants, a grasper of the heel.
The story explains the meaning. Jacob was born holding his twin brother's heel, and years later he took the blessing intended for Esau. From that grip comes the idea of the supplanter, the one who steps into another's place. So a soft French name rests on a fairly sharp origin.
In France the name settled early and stayed there for centuries. English speakers took it up as well, and the twentieth century made it familiar far beyond both countries, in no small part because Jacqueline Kennedy carried it into headlines around the world.
On a Polish class register it can look foreign among the Zofias and Katarzynas, though it is written and read without any trouble. The root holds all the same: supplanter, the one who takes another's place.
How many people are named Jacqueline
1 in 45821 women in Poland is named Jacqueline. 492 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1325 among female names.
Jacqueline's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Jacqueline as a middle name
Jacqueline is a first name for 492 women in Poland and a middle name for another 183, a 73/27 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 502nd, between Ksymena (184) and Juliana (183).
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#500 Filipina184
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#501 Ksymena184
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#502 Jacqueline183
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#503 Juliana183
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#504 Żanetta183