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Jacklyn

Jacklyn is the alternative spelling of Jacqueline.

Meaning of Jacqueline

Proper noun

Jacqueline

  1. A female given name from French.
    • Jacqueline was so named simply because their mother had liked the ring of the word, sounding Parisian and worldly and auguring, to her mind, a good life.1993, Oscar Hijuelos, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, →ISBN, page 6

Origin of Jacklyn

A respelling of Jacqueline, with -lyn. By surface analysis, Jack + -lyn.

Questions about Jacklyn

What is Jacklyn the alternative spelling of?
Jacklyn is the alternative spelling of Jacqueline.

Words near Jacklyn in the dictionary

  1. jackline
  2. jacklines
  3. Jackling
  4. Jacklins
  5. jacklit
  6. Jacklyn
  7. jackman
  8. Jackmans
  9. jackmen
  10. jacknife
  11. jacko

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jacklyn (page history and authors); Jacqueline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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