Jesalyn
Jesalyn was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 341 Americans have been recorded with it between 1985 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jesalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jesalyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,191, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 2009, the peak
Jesalyn peaked in 2009, when 24 girls were given it, #5,781 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #16,191 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,934 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,905 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,263 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,320 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,219 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,580 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,783 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,388 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,463 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 24 | #5,781 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,899 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,282 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,649 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,288 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,218 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,419 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,554 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,688 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,471 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,835 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,175 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,773 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,957 | 4.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,451 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,067 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,960 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,134 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,892 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,158 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,924 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,202 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jesalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jesalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jesalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jesalyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 337 Americans named Jesalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 341 people named Jesalyn (340 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 334 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Jesalyn is a less common spelling of Jessalyn: SSA has recorded 341 Jesalyn and 3,700 Jessalyn since 1880.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jesalyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.