Jeslyn
Jeslyn was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,309 among girls’ names; 1,551 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,540 Americans named Jeslyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeslyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jeslyn?
#5,309 among girls’ names, 2025
Jeslyn fell from #3,730 in 2015 to #5,309 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.0 to 14.9 per million.
113 babies in 2005, the peak
Jeslyn peaked in 2005, when 113 girls were given it, #1,745 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,309 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,951 | 16.7 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,047 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,538 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,360 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,600 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,388 | 19.1 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,814 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,035 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,033 | 31.0 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,730 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,509 | 25.2 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,741 | 35.9 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,287 | 28.4 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,883 | 34.1 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,711 | 37.1 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,714 | 36.5 |
| 2008 | 81 | #2,387 | 42.8 |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,377 | 41.6 |
| 2006 | 106 | #1,912 | 55.8 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,745 | 61.2 |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,008 | 50.1 |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,449 | 36.7 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,755 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,441 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,566 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,026 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,677 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,497 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,874 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,074 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,473 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,780 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,837 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,886 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,787 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,238 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,970 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,071 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,044 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,650 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,621 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,579 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,075 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,246 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeslyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeslyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jeslyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeslyn, and how old are they?
1,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,551 Americans ever recorded as Jeslyn. The median Jeslyn alive today is 18 years old; half are between 12 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,327 people named Jeslyn (1,320 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,391 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 162 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 887 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 481 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jeslyn born?
The states with the most babies named Jeslyn are Texas, California and New York, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 178 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 169 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 68 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 8 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kentucky | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jeslyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jeslyn is most over-represented in Texas: since 1977 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jeslyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,380 babies since 1880, Jeslyn is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 116 babies (21%), again the third 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 Jeslyn
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 Jeslyn and names like it
- Compare Jeslyn and JessalynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJeslyn peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeslyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Jeslyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jeslyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.