Jessalynn
Jessalynn was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,077 among girls’ names; 998 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jessalynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jessalynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jessalynn is “a female given name.”
Variant of Jessalyn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jessalynn?
#8,077 among girls’ names, 2025
Jessalynn fell from #3,803 in 2015 to #8,077 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 22.4 to 8.1 per million.
47 babies in 2016, the peak
Jessalynn peaked in 2016, when 47 girls were given it, #3,395 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,077 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,208 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,523 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,113 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,799 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,635 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,104 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,231 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,028 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,395 | 26.5 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,803 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,875 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,959 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,080 | 21.0 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,874 | 22.2 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,793 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,622 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,698 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,786 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,450 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,289 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,279 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,153 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,756 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,254 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,763 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,997 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,632 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,460 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,151 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,084 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,125 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,074 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,732 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,063 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,261 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,306 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,831 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,732 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,337 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,866 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,332 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,598 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,595 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,685 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,898 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,943 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,785 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,861 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,870 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,403 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jessalynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jessalynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jessalynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jessalynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 983 Americans named Jessalynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 758 people named Jessalynn (755 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 906 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,827 babies since 1880, Jessalynn is the third most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 105 babies (12%), the fourth 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 Jessalynn
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 Jessalynn and names like it
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