Żaklina
A feminine form of Jakub, from the Hebrew name that carries the sense of "supplanter." Fewer than a thousand women in Poland use it, so meeting one is something you'd remember: after quiet years, a few more girls were named it last year than before.
Żaklina Pronunciation
Żaklina is pronounced zhahk-LEE-nah (/ʐakˈlina/).
What Żaklina means
Where Żaklina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Żaklina reaches back to Hebrew, to the name Jacob, Yaakov, which older readings gloss as "supplanter," the one who grasps the heel. In the book of Genesis, Jacob is born gripping the heel of his twin, and the sense of supplanting, of taking another's place, attaches to the name from that scene. Żaklina is the feminine of that line. It came into Polish by way of the French Jacqueline, itself the feminine of Jacques, the French Jakub.
So the Polish gloss, żeńska forma Jakuba, holds exactly. Behind the soft spelling sits one of the oldest names in the book.
A teacher reading a class register might slow for a beat at the ż and k pressed together. The letters are Polish through and through, yet the root is Hebrew and travelled through France to arrive here. Some calendars give Żaklina a name-day on the eighth of February, shared with Jacqueline. The root came first. Short and firm, the meaning stays put: supplanter, the feminine of Jakub.
How many people are named Żaklina
1 in 25132 women in Poland is named Żaklina. 897 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1001 among female names.
Żaklina's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1162 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #1001 name among living women, even as it slips to #1162 among newborns.
Where Żaklina is most popular
Żaklina is most popular in Lower Silesian, 588% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+205%).
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Lower Silesian2 girls born+588%
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Masovian2 girls born+205%
Żaklina as a middle name
Żaklina is a first name for 897 women in Poland and a middle name for another 367, a 71/29 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 355th, between Nur (367) and Hanka (365).
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353
367Narcyza
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354
367Nur
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355367Żaklina
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356
365Hanka
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357
365Irene