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Jaquila

juh-KEE-luh /dʒəˈkiːlə/

At a glance

U.S. rank 2025
Not in the 2025 data · last seen 1997 (#10,836)
Babies in 1997
7 (<0.01% of girls)
Peak
#7,880 in 1990
First recorded
1985

Meaning of Jaquila

Jaquila emerges like a silver koi gliding beneath moonlit currents, her syllables unfolding with the measured grace of a tea ceremony in an autumn garden. Drawn from the French Jacqueline yet rooted in the Hebrew Yaʿaqov—“supplanter”—she carries a heritage both timeless and inventive, the soft emphasis on “kee-luh” (/dʒəˈkiːlə/) conjuring lanterns drifting through Kyoto’s winding alleys at dusk. Though she appears only sporadically in American birth records of the late 1980s and early 1990s, that rarity deepens her intimacy, as if a single cherry blossom petal tracing its own path across an ebony pond. In her image one senses the resilience of bamboo bowing to mountain winds yet unbroken, the fleeting elegance of sakura swirling in silent reverie. Jaquila is at once a poem and a promise: an elegant tributary of identity, flowing gently alongside tradition while charting her own luminous course.

How to pronounce Jaquila

English

Popularity of Jaquila in the U.S.

Jaquila was last recorded in the U.S. in 1997, ranked #10,836 with 7 babies. It peaked at #7,880 in 1990. It first appears in the records in 1985.

Bar and line chart: Jaquila in the U.S., 1985–1997. Bars: girls given the name each year, most 10 in 1990 and 7 in 1997. Line: rank among girl names, peak #7,880 in 1990, #10,836 in 1997.
  • Girls named Jaquila (left scale)
  • Rank among U.S. girl names (right scale, #1 at the top)
By year, 1985–1997. Source: SSA. Download: PNG · SVG
Year-by-year table, 1985⁠–⁠1997 9 rows
Jaquila: babies and rank among girl names in the U.S. by year
YearBabiesRankvs previous year
1997710,836back (not recorded in 1996)
1995710,514▲ 55
1994710,569▲ 1,211
1993611,780back (not recorded in 1992)
1991611,509▼ 3,629
1990107,880▲ 2,967
1989610,847▲ 951
1988511,798back (not recorded in 1986–1987)
1985510,677new