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Jessamyn

Girls' name

Variant of Jessamine

Jessamyn has been given to 731 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1980, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Jessamyn, 2018

1 in 502,000

Jessamyn over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jessamyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jessamine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jessamyn means

Jessamyn is a variant of Jessamine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jessamyn is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒɛs.ə.mɪn/ for Jessamyn.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jessamyn → Jessamine → Jasmine → jasmin. The family’s meaning is “jasmine”, recorded in French with the source elements jasmin.

Origin, language, and formation

Jessamyn is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jessamine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 726 girls were recorded with the name Jessamyn between 1968 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1980; its best national rank was #2,880 in 1981.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Jessamyn between 1981 and 1981. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1981; its best national rank was #6,742 in 1981.

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 Jessamyn?

Jessamyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 502,000
7 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 243,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,244 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jessamyn 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 2018 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 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jessamyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jessamyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jessamyn was born before 1987 — so the typical Jessamyn is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
726
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (235).

Is Jessamyn 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (31)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,880
1981

Spellings of Jessamyn

Jessamyn is not the most common spelling — Jessalyn is, with 36.8% against Jessamyn's 7.2%.

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 Jessamyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Jessamyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 633,759 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Jessamyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jessamyn around the world

Where Jessamyn 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
    1997–2000
    #3,912
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1990–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jessamyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,880
1981
Peak year
1980
31 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
726
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,742
1981
Peak year
1981
5 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
1981
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jessamyn

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

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Sibling names for Jessamyn

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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