Jesslyn — #3174 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Jesslyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,595 babies named Jesslyn between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jesslyn currently holds the #3174 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 101 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jesslyn performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 809 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Jesslyn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 399 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Jesslyn in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jesslyn in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,595 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.