Jestine — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jestine

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,015 babies named Jestine between 1909 and 2009, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jestine currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1949, when 26 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jestine performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 156 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Jestine shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 143 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Jestine in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jestine 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 1,015 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.