Jesslyn
- #3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 101 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,631since 1915
Jesslyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Jesslyn has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,975 | 36 |
| 2024 | #3,176 | 50 |
| 2023 | #3,225 | 50 |
| 2022 | #2,689 | 64 |
| 2021 | #2,440 | 73 |
| 2020 | #2,065 | 89 |
| 2019 | #2,376 | 75 |
| 2018 | #2,532 | 69 |
| 2017 | #1,964 | 101 |
| 2016 | #2,093 | 93 |
| 2015 | #2,501 | 72 |
| 2014 | #2,304 | 80 |
| 2013 | #1,977 | 99 |
| 2012 | #2,401 | 77 |
| 2011 | #2,346 | 79 |
| 2010 | #2,752 | 64 |
| 2009 | #2,338 | 83 |
| 2008 | #2,538 | 74 |
| 2007 | #2,394 | 79 |
| 2006 | #2,916 | 59 |
| 2005 | #2,580 | 66 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 |
| 2003 | #2,577 | 62 |
| 2002 | #2,935 | 50 |
| 2001 | #2,663 | 56 |
| 2000 | #3,334 | 40 |
| 1999 | #2,991 | 44 |
| 1998 | #2,756 | 48 |
| 1997 | #2,820 | 43 |
| 1996 | #2,591 | 48 |
| 1995 | #2,309 | 57 |
| 1994 | #2,295 | 57 |
| 1993 | #2,825 | 42 |
| 1992 | #4,088 | 25 |
| 1991 | #3,540 | 30 |
| 1990 | #2,600 | 45 |
| 1989 | #3,566 | 28 |
| 1988 | #3,893 | 23 |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 |
| 1985 | #3,983 | 20 |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 |
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| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
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| 1934 | #3,802 | 6 |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 |
| 1931 | — | |
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| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 |
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| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 |
| 1923 | — | |
| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 |
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| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jesslyn! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1926, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jesslyn is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,386 · 1 in 20,068
- California#3,095 · 1 in 32,345
Best ever in a state: #515 in Alabama, 1995.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #2,386 | 8 | 1 in 20,068 |
| California | #3,095 | 5 | 1 in 32,345 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jesslyn
- 1,910 spots since 2020 (#2,065 → #3,975)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2017 at #1,964 (101 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,094 girls born in 2017 were named Jesslyn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 44,646 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.7% of all girls named Jesslyn (809) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,274 (1915) | #4,274 |
| 1920s | 18 | #3,561 (1927) | #4,544 |
| 1930s | 17 | #3,802 (1934) | #3,986 |
| 1940s | 24 | #4,196 (1943) | #4,609 |
| 1950s | 39 | #4,738 (1950) | #5,451 |
| 1960s | 53 | #4,533 (1962) | #5,738 |
| 1970s | 71 | #5,136 (1971) | #6,235 |
| 1980s | 180 | #3,566 (1989) | #4,536 |
| 1990s | 439 | #2,295 (1994) | #2,882 |
| 2000s | 614 | #2,338 (2009) | #2,761 |
| 2010s | 809 | #1,964 (2017) | #2,325 |
| 2020s | 362 | #2,065 (2020) | #2,928 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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