Jesslyn
Jesslyn was given to 36 girls in 2025, #4,025 among girls’ names; 2,631 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,540 Americans named Jesslyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jesslyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jesslyn?
#4,025 among girls’ names, 2025
Jesslyn fell from #2,515 in 2015 to #4,025 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 40.3 to 22.4 per million.
101 babies in 2017, the peak
Jesslyn peaked in 2017, when 101 girls were given it, #1,967 among girls’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,025 | 22.4 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,198 | 30.9 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,246 | 31.2 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,710 | 39.0 |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,449 | 44.5 |
| 2020 | 89 | #2,073 | 55.1 |
| 2019 | 75 | #2,387 | 44.7 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,542 | 40.6 |
| 2017 | 101 | #1,967 | 58.5 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,102 | 52.5 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,515 | 40.3 |
| 2014 | 80 | #2,314 | 44.8 |
| 2013 | 99 | #1,981 | 56.4 |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,413 | 43.7 |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,357 | 44.9 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,769 | 36.0 |
| 2009 | 83 | #2,347 | 45.2 |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,546 | 39.1 |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,410 | 41.1 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,924 | 31.0 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,582 | 35.7 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,356 | 24.5 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,591 | 33.9 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,945 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,669 | 31.1 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,358 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,015 | 24.8 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,779 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,844 | 24.7 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,601 | 27.4 |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,314 | 32.4 |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,297 | 31.9 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,847 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,130 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,563 | 16.0 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,614 | 23.7 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,601 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,941 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,668 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,566 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,038 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,226 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,600 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,418 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,052 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,080 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,905 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,697 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,329 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,612 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,482 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,954 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,266 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,521 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,206 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,471 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,334 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,991 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,561 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,679 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,528 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,387 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,662 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,707 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,571 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,482 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,051 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,939 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,982 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,592 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,914 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,532 | 3.9 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,420 | 4.3 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,557 | 4.7 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,032 | 5.7 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,142 | 5.6 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,708 | 6.7 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,451 | 4.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,379 | 4.2 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,595 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jesslyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jesslyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jesslyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jesslyn, and how old are they?
2,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,631 Americans ever recorded as Jesslyn. The median Jesslyn alive today is 18 years old; half are between 10 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,974 people named Jesslyn (1,974 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,220 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 68 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 101 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 458 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 959 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 945 |
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 Jesslyn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,510 | 1.6× |
| California | 5 | #3,299 | 0.8× |
Where Jesslyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jesslyn is most over-represented in Texas: since 1915 it was given 1.6 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 Jesslyn 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, Jesslyn is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 129 babies (28%), the 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 Jesslyn
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 Jesslyn and names like it
- Compare Jesslyn and JessalynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJesslyn peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jesslyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Jesslyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jesslyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.