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Jesselyn

#10,459 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jesselyn has been given to 543 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #10,459 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Jesselyn, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jesselyn: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jesselyn means

Jesselyn is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jesselyn is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 543 girls were recorded with the name Jesselyn between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1989; its best national rank was #3,425 in 1989.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,536 in 2020 to #10,459 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,323 in 2015 to #10,459 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 Jesselyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,459
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jesselyn 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jesselyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jesselyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jesselyn was born before 1997 — so the typical Jesselyn is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
533
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Choose a decade

1990s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (181).

Is Jesselyn 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,077
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+864
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.0%
Peak was 1989 (30)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,425
1989

Spellings of Jesselyn

Jesselyn is not the most common spelling — Joselyn is, with 46.5% against Jesselyn's 1.4%.

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 Jesselyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Jesselyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 690,392 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 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. Jesselyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jesselyn around the world

Where Jesselyn 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.

  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #2,426
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jesselyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,459
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,077
Best rank ever
#3,425
1989
Peak year
1989
30 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
543
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Jesselyn

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

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Sibling names for Jesselyn

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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