Jessalyn
Jessalyn was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,927 among girls’ names; 3,700 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,630 Americans named Jessalyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 14 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jessalyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jessalyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jessalyn is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jessalyn?
#4,927 among girls’ names, 2025
Jessalyn fell from #1,803 in 2015 to #4,927 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 65.0 to 16.8 per million.
132 babies in 2001, the peak
Jessalyn peaked in 2001, when 132 girls were given it, #1,430 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,927 | 16.8 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,074 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,308 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,388 | 28.7 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,361 | 19.5 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,042 | 32.8 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,694 | 38.1 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,976 | 32.3 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,369 | 44.6 |
| 2016 | 102 | #1,965 | 57.6 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 116 | #1,803 | 65.0 |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,017 | 54.9 |
| 2013 | 99 | #1,980 | 56.4 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,960 | 56.8 |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,990 | 56.3 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,834 | 62.4 |
| 2009 | 98 | #2,079 | 53.3 |
| 2008 | 95 | #2,129 | 50.2 |
| 2007 | 110 | #1,889 | 57.2 |
| 2006 | 118 | #1,767 | 62.1 |
| 2005 | 121 | #1,651 | 65.5 |
| 2004 | 90 | #2,029 | 49.0 |
| 2003 | 107 | #1,761 | 58.6 |
| 2002 | 120 | #1,560 | 66.8 |
| 2001 | 132 | #1,430 | 73.3 |
| 2000 | 106 | #1,664 | 58.4 |
| 1999 | 126 | #1,403 | 71.0 |
| 1998 | 99 | #1,639 | 56.0 |
| 1997 | 78 | #1,888 | 44.8 |
| 1996 | 80 | #1,827 | 45.6 |
| 1995 | 83 | #1,746 | 47.2 |
| 1994 | 81 | #1,784 | 45.4 |
| 1993 | 81 | #1,803 | 44.8 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,803 | 43.4 |
| 1991 | 84 | #1,729 | 44.8 |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,827 | 41.1 |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,603 | 47.2 |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,622 | 44.9 |
| 1987 | 48 | #2,248 | 27.6 |
| 1986 | 57 | #1,936 | 33.2 |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,913 | 33.7 |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,930 | 32.1 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,109 | 28.1 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,119 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,879 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,447 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,216 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,831 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,652 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,559 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,812 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,798 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,440 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,470 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,006 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,340 | 4.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,190 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jessalyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jessalyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jessalyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jessalyn, and how old are they?
3,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,700 Americans ever recorded as Jessalyn. The median Jessalyn alive today is 23 years old; half are between 14 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 3,056 people named Jessalyn (3,052 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,451 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 97 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 815 |
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 Jessalyn born?
The states with the most babies named Jessalyn are California, Texas and Florida, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 437 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 364 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 125 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 84 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 53 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 53 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 51 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 42 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Jessalyn 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 11,114 babies since 1880, Jessalyn is the most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 129 babies (21%), the second most given that year.
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 Jessalyn
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 Jessalyn and names like it
- Compare Jessalyn and JesslynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJessalyn peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jessalyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Jessalyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jessalyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.