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Jessalyn

#4,927 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jessalyn has been given to 3,700 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #4,927 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 132 recorded.

Babies named Jessalyn, 2025

1 in 123,000

Jessalyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jessalyn: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jessalyn means

Jessalyn is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jessalyn is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,700 girls were recorded with the name Jessalyn between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 132 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,403 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,042 in 2020 to #4,927 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,803 in 2015 to #4,927 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jessalyn?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 59,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,927
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jessalyn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jessalyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jessalyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jessalyn was born before 2003 — so the typical Jessalyn is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,690
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (1,097).

Is Jessalyn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+147
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,885
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,124
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.23×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.5%
Peak was 2001 (132)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,403
1999

Spellings of Jessalyn

Jessalyn is the most-used spelling, taking 17.7% of the 20,959 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jessalyn is used

Across 2016–2025, Jessalyn was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 34,717 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 20,000
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 33,333
  4. 4Washington1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Jessalyn around the world

Where Jessalyn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • France
    2007–2007
    #6,382
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1986–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jessalyn

People whose public names include Jessalyn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jessalyn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,927
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,885
Best rank ever
#1,403
1999
Peak year
2001
132 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,700
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Jessalyn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jessalyn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jessalyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jessalyn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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