Jacqueline or Jacquelyn (ʒaˈklin, ˈdʒæklɨn) is a female given name. It has spelling variations and slight variants in both spelling and pronunciation have come into use, such as: Jacquelyn, Jaclyn, Jacklyn, Jaklin, Jacqlyn, Jacquelin, Jackeline and Jacklin. The diminutive

Diminutive

In language structure, a diminutive, or diminutive form , is a formation of a word used to convey a slight degree of the root meaning, smallness of the object or quality named, encapsulation, intimacy, or endearment...

 for Jacqueline is Jackie, which also has variants, including Jacqui, Jaquie, Jacquee, Jaq, Jacque, Jack, Jacq, Jacquie, Jac, Jaci, Jaki, Jacki, Jaqui, Jacky, Jackee, Jake, Jay, Jax, Jackie and Jakki.

Origins

Jacqueline comes from French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

, as the feminine form of Jacques

Jacques

Jacques is the French equivalent of James.Jacques is derived from the Late Latin Iacobus, from the Greek , from the Hebrew ...

. Jacques originated from 'Jacob

Jacob

Jacob "heel" or "leg-puller"), also later known as Israel , as described in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the New Testament and the Qur'an was the third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant, and ancestor of the tribes of Israel, which were named after his descendants.In the...

', which is derived from the Hebrew meaning 'may God protect' or 'supplanter'.

Supplanter refers to a person who replaces someone or thing of lesser value, and this Hebrew meaning refers to Jacob supplanting Esau

Esau

Esau , in the Hebrew Bible, is the oldest son of Isaac. He is mentioned in the Book of Genesis, and by the minor prophets, Obadiah and Malachi. The New Testament later references him in the Book of Romans and the Book of Hebrews....

 as recorded in the Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew Bible is a term used by biblical scholars outside of Judaism to refer to the Tanakh , a canonical collection of Jewish texts, and the common textual antecedent of the several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament...

. 'May God protect' has a more positive connotation and is therefore the preferred meaning for the name.

Jacqueline was first used in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 in the 17th century.

Popularity

Jacqueline is a very popular female first name, used in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 and elsewhere.

One of the most famous persons to bear the name in the twentieth century is Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Five years later she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle...

, née Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, often referred to as Jackie Kennedy following her marriage to U.S. President John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

 from 1953 to 1963. The name's popular image of elegance may derive at least in part from its association with her.

Translations

• Bulgarian
  Bulgarian language
  Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
  
  : Жаклин
• Simplified Chinese
  Chinese language
  The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
  
  : 杰奎琳
• Traditional Chinese
  Chinese language
  The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
  
  : 賈貴琳
• Cantonese:積琦蓮
• Croatian
  Croatian language
  Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...
  
  : Żaklina
• Czech
  Czech language
  Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
  
  : Jakubka, Jakuba
• Hebrew
  Hebrew language
  Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
  
  : ז'קלין
• Latin: Iacoba
• Polish
  Polish language
  Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
  
  : Jakubina, Żaklina
• Arabic
  Arabic language
  Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
  
  : جاكلين
• Persian
  Persian language
  Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
  
  : ژاکلین
• Portuguese
  Portuguese language
  Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
  
  : Jaqueline
• Russian
  Russian language
  Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
  
  : Жаклин
• Serbian
  Serbian language
  Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
  
  : Жаклина
• Spanish
  Spanish language
  Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
  
  : Jacquelina
• Thai
  Thai language
  Thai , also known as Central Thai and Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai–Kadai language family. Historical linguists have been unable to definitively...
  
  :

Television, stage, and film

• Jacqueline Beer
  Jacqueline Beer
  Jacqueline Vangramberg is a former Hollywood film and television actress who was also named Miss France in the 1954 Miss Universe Pageant...
  
  , former actress and present Chair of the Board of Directors of the Thor Heyerdahl Research Centre
• Jacqueline Bisset
  Jacqueline Bisset
  Jacqueline Bisset is an English actress. She has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award. She is known for her roles in the films Bullitt , Airport , The Deep , Class , and the TV series Nip/Tuck in 2006...
  
   (born 1944), British actress
• Jacqueline Bracamontes
  Jacqueline Bracamontes
  Jacqueline Bracamontes van Hoorde is a Mexican actress, model and former winner of Nuestra Belleza México.-Biography:...
  
  , actress
• Jackie Brambles, British television presenter
• Jacqueline Brookes
  Jacqueline Brookes
  Jacqueline Victoire Brookes is an American actress known for her work on stage, off and on Broadway.Brookes was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the daughter of Maria Victoire and Frederick Jack Brookes, an investment banker...
  
  , American stage actress
• Jacqueline Collen
  Jacqueline Collen
  Jacqueline Marie Collen is an American actress.-Career:Jacqueline Collen was born on a non-working farm in Colorado, USA, on February 27, 1968. She worked for several years as a model before becoming an actress. Jacqueline is best known for her role as Maeve on the Adventures of Sinbad...
  
  , actress
• Jacqueline Ellen Last O'Neil Henderson
  Jackie O (radio host)
  Jacqueline Ellen Marie Henderson, better known as Jackie O, is an Australian commercial radio host, actress and television presenter. She is best-known nationally for presenting The Hot Hits, the Hot 30 Countdown, Take 40 Australia and the Kyle & Jackie O on 2Day FM with Kyle Sandilands and for...
  
  , Australian radio host known as "Jackie O"
• Jacqueline Hennessy
  Jacqueline Hennessy
  Jacqueline Hennessy is a Canadian journalist, television host, and occasional actress. She is the identical twin sister of actress Jill Hennessy. Hennessy is of Irish, Italian, Swedish, French, and Ukrainian descent...
  
  , Canadian actress and journalist
• Jacqueline Hill
  Jacqueline Hill
  Jacqueline Hill was a British actress known for her role as Barbara Wright in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. As the history teacher of the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright was the first of the companions to appear in the show in 1963, with Hill speaking...
  
  , British actress
• Jacqueline Kim, Korean-American actress best known for the role of Lao Ma in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess
• Jacqueline Logan
  Jacqueline Logan
  Jacqueline Logan was a star of the silent motion picture screen who was on board William Randolph Hearst's yacht The Oneida in 1924 when film director Thomas Ince died. The young actress was under contract to Ince at the time. Logan was a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1922. She was born in Corsicana, Texas...
  
  , silent film actress
• Jacqueline McKenzie
  Jacqueline McKenzie
  Jacqueline Susan McKenzie is an Australian actress.McKenzie made her film debut in the 1987 film Wordplay and on stage in Child Dancing for Griffin Theatre Company. She made a strong impression in Romper Stomper , and over the next couple of years came to be regarded as one of Australia's most...
  
  , Australian actress
• Jacqueline Pearce
  Jacqueline Pearce
  Jacqueline Pearce is a British actress.-Career:Jacqueline Pearce trained at the British stage school RADA and at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio in Los Angeles....
  
  , British actress
• Jacqueline Pillon
  Jacqueline Pillon
  Jacqueline Patricia Pillon is a Canadian actress. She is best known as the voice of Matt from Cyberchase.- Early life :...
  
  , voice actress best known for the role of Matthew in the PBS cartoon series CyberChase
• Jacqueline Wu, Hong Kong actress

Sports

• Jacqueline Batteast
  Jacqueline Batteast
  Jacqueline Batteast is a professional basketball player from South Bend, Indiana, who last played in the Women's National Basketball Association for the Detroit Shock....
  
  , US basketball player
• Jacqueline Cruz Silva
  Jackie Silva
  Jacqueline Louise Cruz Silva is a retired volleyball player from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the inaugural women's beach volleyball tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics, partnering Sandra Pires....
  
  , Brazilian beach volleyball player
• Jacqueline Moore
  Jacqueline Moore
  Jacqueline DeLois Moore is an inactive American professional wrestler, who was most recently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling...
  
  , American professional wrestler

Political

• Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
  Jacqueline Lee Bouvier "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Five years later she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle...
  
  , former First Lady of the United States, former widow of the U.S. President John F. Kennedy, widow of Aristotle Onassis
• Jacqueline Jill Smith, English politician

Literature

• Jacqueline Briskin
  Jacqueline Briskin
  Jacqueline Briskin is an American writer specializing in historical fiction. Her books regularly appear on the New York Times bestseller's list....
  
  , writer
• Jacqueline Susann
  Jacqueline Susann
  Jacqueline Susann was an American author known for her best-selling novels. Her most notable work was Valley of the Dolls, a book that broke sales records and spawned an Oscar-nominated 1967 film and a short-lived TV series.-Early years:Jacqueline Susann was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to...
  
  , writer
• Jacqueline Wilson
  Jacqueline Wilson
  Dame Jacqueline Wilson, DBE, FRSL is an award-winning English author, known for her vast and diverse work in children's literature. Her novels have been adapted numerous times for television, and commonly deal with such challenging themes as adoption, divorce and mental illness...
  
  , writer

Music

• Jacqueline Boyer
  Jacqueline Boyer
  Jacqueline Boyer is a French singer and actress, the daughter of performers Jacques Pills and Lucienne Boyer....
  
  , singer
• Jacqueline du Pré
  Jacqueline du Pré
  Jacqueline Mary du Pré OBE was a British cellist. She is particularly associated with Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor; her interpretation has been described as "definitive" and "legendary." Her career was cut short by multiple sclerosis, which forced her to stop performing at 28 and led to her...
  
  , British cellist
• Jacqueline Marie "Jackie" Evancho
  Jackie Evancho
  Jacqueline Marie "Jackie" Evancho is an American child singer described as a classical crossover artist. After entering some talent competitions, issuing an independent album, Prelude to a Dream, and attracting interest on YouTube, she gained wider popularity in 2010 with her performances in the...
  
  , Classical crossover artist

Science

• Jacqueline Barton
  Jacqueline Barton
  Jacqueline K. Barton is an American chemist. She is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology...
  
  , German-American observational astronomer
• Jacqueline Labofish
  Jackie Stallone
  Jacqueline 'Jackie' Stallone is an American astrologer and celebrity who is the mother of the actor Sylvester and singer Frank. She is also the mother of actress Toni D'Alto whom she had with ex-husband Anthony Filiti.-Early life:Stallone was born Jacqueline M...
  
  , astrologer and mother of Sylvester and Frank Stallone
• Jacqueline McGlade
  Jacqueline McGlade
  Jacqueline M. McGlade is a leading marine biologist and environmental informatics professor. Her research focusses on the spatial and nonlinear dynamics of ecosystems, climate change and scenario development....
  
  , environmental scientist, head of the European Environment Agency

Fictional

• Jacqueline Ingrid Bouvier, TV cartoon character on The Simpsons
• Jacqueline Beulah Burkhart
  Jackie Burkhart
  Jacqueline "Jackie" Beulah Burkhart is a fictional character and one of the two female leads on the Fox Network sitcom That '70s Show, portrayed by Mila Kunis.-Personality:...
  
  , character from That '70s Show
• Jacqueline "Jacqui" Bernadette McQueen
  Jacqui Malota
  Jacqueline "Jacqui" McQueen is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Claire Cooper. She debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 26 September 2006 and was introduced by series producer Bryan Kirkwood as part of the McQueen family...
  
  , character from the long-running soap opera Hollyoaks
• Jacqueline Natla, main antagonist and final boss from Tomb Raider video games
• Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Tyler
  Jackie Tyler
  In "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel" Coduri plays a parallel Earth version of Jackie. In this universe, she is still married to Pete, but they have no children, although she has a Yorkshire terrier named Rose. Despite Pete's success, which has led to Jackie becoming a celebrity, they...
  
  , a character from the 2005 Doctor Who television series
• Jacqueline Payne Marone, character from The Bold and the Beautiful
• Jackie Wilcox, character from the TV series Heroes
• Jacqueline De Bellefort, character from Agatha Christie's novel Death on the Nile
  Death on the Nile
  Death on the Nile is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 1, 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence and the US edition at $2.00.The book...
  
  
• Jacqueline Barrett, character from Jack & Jill
  Jack & Jill (TV series)
  Jack & Jill is an American television series comedy-drama starring Ivan Sergei, Amanda Peet, Jaime Pressly, Justin Kirk, Simon Rex and Sarah Paulson which ran from September 1999 to April 2001 on the WB Network. It was created and executive produced by Randi Mayem Singer.The show's theme song was...
  
  
• Jacqueline Falsworth-Crichton
  Spitfire (comics)
  Spitfire is a fictional character, a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe and was introduced as a member of the World War II era Invaders superhero team.-Fictional character biography:...
  
  , comic book character
• Jacqueline de Ghent, character from Ever After
  Ever After
  Ever After: A Cinderella Story is a 1998 film inspired by the fairy tale Cinderella, directed by Andy Tennant and starring Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston and Dougray Scott. The screenplay is written by Tennant, Susannah Grant, and Rick Parks. The original music score is composed by George Fenton...
  
  

Other

• Jacqueline Felice de Almania
  Jacqueline Felice de Almania
  Jacqueline Felice de Almania, , was an Italian physician active in Paris, France.Jacobina Félicie was reportedly from Florence in Italy, and was active as a medical doctor in Paris in 1322. She belonged to the minority of licensed female doctors of her time period; in 1292, there were eight female...
  
  , physician, 1322
• Jacqueline Saburido
  Jacqueline Saburido
  Jacqueline "Jacqui" Saburido is a Venezuelan burn victim who advocates against drunk driving.-Early life:The only child of Rosalia and Amadeo Saburido, she lived in Caracas, Venezuela for all of her childhood. Living with her father after her parents divorced, she began studying engineering in...
  
  , victim and survivor of a drunk-driving accident
• Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut
  Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut
  Jacqueline of Wittelsbach was Duchess of Bavaria-Straubing, Countess of Hainaut and Holland from 1417 to 1432...
  
  
• Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano
  Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano
  -External links:*...
  
  , 1995 Miss World representative of Venezuela
• Jacqueline Bracamontes
  Jacqueline Bracamontes
  Jacqueline Bracamontes van Hoorde is a Mexican actress, model and former winner of Nuestra Belleza México.-Biography:...
  
  , beauty pageant titleholder
• Jacqueline Cochran
  Jacqueline Cochran
  Jacqueline Cochran was a pioneer American aviator, considered to be one of the most gifted racing pilots of her generation...
  
  , American aviatrix

See also

• Jacquelyn
  Jacquelyn (name)
  Jacquelyn,-cquel-yn, jac-que-lyn\) is a given name, derived from the respelling of Jacqueline with the -lyn suffix. It has two variant forms: Jacklyn and Jaclyn.- See also :* Jaclyn* Jacqueline* List of pages starting with "Jacquelyn"...
  
  
• Jacque
  Jacque
  Jacque is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.-References:*...
  
  
• Jackie
• Jacky
• Jaclyn

External links

• Meaning of Jacqueline on Thinkbabynames.com
• Meaning of Jacqueline on Babynameworld.com