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Jacquelyn

Jacquelyn 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 Jacquelyn

An alteration of Jacqueline with -lyn.

Questions about Jacquelyn

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

Words near Jacquelyn in the dictionary

  1. Jacquard machines
  2. jacquardlike
  3. jacquards
  4. Jacque
  5. Jacqueline
  6. Jacquelyn
  7. jacqueminot
  8. jacqueminots
  9. jacquerie
  10. jacqueries
  11. jacques

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jacquelyn (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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