"Traditional French name"
The name Jacquetta is commonly a female name from the "French" origin.
Jacquetta is a feminine diminutive of Jacques, the French form of James, formed with the diminutive suffix -ette. Jacques descends from Late Latin Iacobus, from Greek Iakobos, from Hebrew Ya'aqov. The best documented early bearer in England is Jacquetta of Luxembourg (died 1472), duchess of Bedford and mother of Elizabeth Woodville, which places the name in English use by the fifteenth century.
The pronunciation of Jacquetta is juh-KET-uh.
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