Jessilyn

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jessilyn has been given to 682 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 1991, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Jessilyn, 2023

1 in 474,000

Jessilyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jessilyn: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jessilyn means

Jessilyn is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jessilyn is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 682 girls were recorded with the name Jessilyn between 1968 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1991; its best national rank was #3,933 in 1989.

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.

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How common is Jessilyn?

Jessilyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 229,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 328,234 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jessilyn 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 2023 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 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jessilyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jessilyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jessilyn was born before 2000 — so the typical Jessilyn is around 25 today.

Median birth year: 2000; About 25 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 28.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 53.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 682; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 28.2% of all recorded uses (192).

Is Jessilyn 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: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1991 (26)
Years since peak: 34; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,933; 1989

Spellings of Jessilyn

Jessilyn is not the most common spelling — Jerilyn is, with 20.8% against Jessilyn's 2.7%.

Jerilyn20.8%5,251
Jessalyn14.7%3,700
Josselyn13.2%3,330
Jesslyn10.4%2,631
Josslyn8.6%2,171
Jeslyn6.2%1,551
Jerrilyn5.1%1,277
Josilyn4.5%1,132

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 Jessilyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Jessilyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,131,748 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Texas1 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. Jessilyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jessilyn 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: #3,933; 1989
Peak year: 1991; 26 that year
First recorded: 1968
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 682
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Jessilyn

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

Jesselyn Jessalyn Jesslyn Jeslyn Jesalyn Jesslynn Jesilyn Jessamine Jessalynn Chrislyn Mattilyn Magdalyn Jessamyn Naidelyn Maddelyn Brecklyn Scottlyn Riverlyn Jessiah Jessicca Courtlyn Jessia Jennalyn Jesiah

Sibling names for Jessilyn

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

For a sister

Shaniqua Devan Chanelle Ileana Amberly Iesha Elvia Kacy

For a brother

Shay Laron Paris Dejuan Coty Rico Malcom German

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