Jesly
Jesly was given to 136 girls in 2025, #1,550 among girls’ names; 404 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jesly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jesly?
#1,550 among girls’ names, 2025
Jesly rose from #11,321 in 2015 to #1,550 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 84.6 per million.
136 babies in 2025, the peak
Jesly peaked in 2025, when 136 girls were given it, #1,550 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 8 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 136 | #1,550 | 84.6 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,565 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,267 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,347 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,700 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,535 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,855 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,140 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,283 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,403 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,321 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,810 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,513 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,682 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,015 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,337 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,347 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,900 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,423 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,226 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,746 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,102 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,032 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,593 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,298 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,926 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,448 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,423 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jesly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jesly has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jesly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jesly, and how old are they?
An estimated 401 Americans named Jesly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 1 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 299 people named Jesly (290 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 223 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 669 babies since 1880, Jesly is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 136 of their 143 babies (95%), again the most given.
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 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jesly
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.
More about Jesly and names like it
- Compare Jesly and JesslyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJesly peaked in 2025.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jesly since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Jesly.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jesly alive today were born 2013-2025.
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