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Jesslyn

#4,025 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jesslyn has been given to 2,631 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #4,025 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 101 recorded.

Babies named Jesslyn, 2025

1 in 92,100

Jesslyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jesslyn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jesslyn means

Jesslyn is a given name.

The naming story behind Jesslyn

Wikidata records Jesslyn as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q78185221, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,631 girls were recorded with the name Jesslyn between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 101 in 2017; its best national rank was #1,967 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,073 in 2020 to #4,025 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,515 in 2015 to #4,025 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.

How common is Jesslyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 44,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,025
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jesslyn 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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jesslyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jesslyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jesslyn was born before 2008 — so the typical Jesslyn is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,567
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (809).

Is Jesslyn 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
−827
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,952
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,510
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.6%
Peak was 2017 (101)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,967
2017

Spellings of Jesslyn

Jesslyn is not the most common spelling — Joselyn is, with 26.3% against Jesslyn's 3.8%.

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 Jesslyn is used

Across 2016–2025, Jesslyn was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 20,172 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 10,000
  2. 2California1 in 20,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 33,333
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8Ohio1 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.

Jesslyn around the world

Where Jesslyn 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
    2019–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1978–2008
    #533
    in 2008

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

Notable people named Jesslyn

People whose public names include Jesslyn, 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.

Jesslyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,025
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,952
Best rank ever
#1,967
2017
Peak year
2017
101 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,631
Count in 2025
36

Names similar to Jesslyn

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

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Names with a curve like Jesslyn

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

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Sibling names for Jesslyn

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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