Żaklin
Only around 146 women in Poland carry it, and newborns have all but stopped: a name most Poles will never meet. At root it's Hebrew, holding the sense of a supplanter.
Żaklin Pronunciation
Żaklin is pronounced ZHAHK-leen (/ˈʐaklin/).
What Żaklin means
Where Żaklin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Żaklin comes into Polish from the French Jacqueline, the feminine of Jacques. Follow that line back and you reach Latin Jacobus, then the Hebrew name Yaakov, Jacob. The old gloss on Jacob is supplanter, the one who grasps the heel. In the Book of Genesis, Jacob is born holding the heel of his twin Esau. The root is Hebrew.
The Polish reading, niech bóg strzeże, may God guard her, arrived later as a blessing fitted to the sound. The Hebrew itself points somewhere harder, to supplanting and struggle.
The variant Żaklina softens the ending for Polish ears. Both forms turn up on a school class register. One girl signs Żaklin, another Żaklina, and the same Jacob stands behind each. The meaning stays the same: supplanter, the one who takes the heel.
How many people are named Żaklin
1 in 154410 women in Poland is named Żaklin. 146 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2688 among female names.
Żaklin's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Żaklin as a middle name
Żaklin is a first name for 146 women in Poland and a middle name for another 100, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 669th, between Scarlett (100) and Iwonka (99).
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#667 Paloma100
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#668 Scarlett100
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#669 Żaklin100
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#670 Iwonka99
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#671 Mariana99