Jaqueline
Fewer than a hundred women in Poland carry this spelling, and no girls got it last year. A Latin name at root, meaning "supplanter", the one who holds by the heel.
Jaqueline Pronunciation
What Jaqueline means
Where Jaqueline comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jaqueline reaches back through French Jacqueline to the Latin Iacobus, a name given first to men. The Latin root holds an old meaning: supplanter, the one who grips the heel. That picture comes from the biblical Jacob, born clutching his twin brother's heel.
The name found its home in English. Jacqueline Kennedy carried it across the twentieth century, and readers everywhere learned the spelling. From English it drifted into other languages, keeping its French sound.
Poland took that sound and wrote it plainly. The variant żaklina spells the soft French ending with Polish letters. On a school class register, żaklina reads as native. The older Jaqueline still points back to Iacobus, and to the child who held by the heel.
How many people are named Jaqueline
1 in 259125 women in Poland is named Jaqueline. 87 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3775 among female names.
Jaqueline as a middle name
Jaqueline is a first name for 87 women in Poland and a middle name for another 26, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1404th, between Harriet (26) and Konsuela (26).
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#1402 Corina26
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#1403 Harriet26
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#1404 Jaqueline26
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#1405 Konsuela26
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#1406 Neli26