Jessalyn
#4,878 for girls in 2025, 27 births
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 126 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,700since 1918
Jessalyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Jessalyn 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 | #4,878 | 27 |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 |
| 2022 | #3,365 | 47 |
| 2021 | #4,326 | 32 |
| 2020 | #3,015 | 53 |
| 2019 | #2,681 | 64 |
| 2018 | #2,962 | 55 |
| 2017 | #2,357 | 77 |
| 2016 | #1,956 | 102 |
| 2015 | #1,793 | 116 |
| 2014 | #2,010 | 98 |
| 2013 | #1,977 | 99 |
| 2012 | #1,955 | 100 |
| 2011 | #1,982 | 99 |
| 2010 | #1,830 | 111 |
| 2009 | #2,076 | 98 |
| 2008 | #2,122 | 95 |
| 2007 | #1,886 | 110 |
| 2006 | #1,761 | 118 |
| 2005 | #1,645 | 121 |
| 2004 | #2,030 | 90 |
| 2003 | #1,755 | 107 |
| 2002 | #1,558 | 120 |
| 2001 | #1,427 | 132 |
| 2000 | #1,659 | 106 |
| 1999 | #1,398 | 126 |
| 1998 | #1,636 | 99 |
| 1997 | #1,884 | 78 |
| 1996 | #1,826 | 80 |
| 1995 | #1,746 | 83 |
| 1994 | #1,786 | 81 |
| 1993 | #1,801 | 81 |
| 1992 | #1,798 | 80 |
| 1991 | #1,727 | 84 |
| 1990 | #1,828 | 78 |
| 1989 | #1,600 | 87 |
| 1988 | #1,614 | 80 |
| 1987 | #2,236 | 48 |
| 1986 | #1,932 | 57 |
| 1985 | #1,906 | 58 |
| 1984 | #1,922 | 54 |
| 1983 | #2,097 | 47 |
| 1982 | #3,093 | 28 |
| 1981 | #2,847 | 31 |
| 1980 | #3,411 | 24 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 |
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| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
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| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
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| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 |
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| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jessalyn! It came in at #4,809, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1964, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Jessalyn
- 143 spots since 2024 (#5,021 → #4,878)
- 1,863 spots since 2020 (#3,015 → #4,878)
- 3,085 spots since 2015 (#1,793 → #4,878)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1999 at #1,398 (126 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,641 girls born in 2001 were named Jessalyn (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 59,528 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,398 in 1999, was only 1 in 14,078 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.6% of all girls named Jessalyn (1,097) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,809 (1918) | #4,809 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,975 (1920) | #4,975 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 13 | #4,831 (1965) | #5,924 |
| 1970s | 66 | #3,777 (1978) | #6,479 |
| 1980s | 514 | #1,600 (1989) | #2,266 |
| 1990s | 870 | #1,398 (1999) | #1,743 |
| 2000s | 1,097 | #1,427 (2001) | #1,792 |
| 2010s | 921 | #1,793 (2015) | #2,150 |
| 2020s | 209 | #3,015 (2020) | #4,309 |
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.
Jessalyn in 1918
Top girls' names in 1918
More about 1918
girls
1,157,631 girls got a published name in 1918; 1 in 231,526 of them was named Jessalyn, which outranked 13.9% of the 5,585 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 776 names at #4,809; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 547Jesse#1,507 → #960
- ↑ 494Liberty#1,079 → #585
- ↑ 389Marilynn#1,337 → #948
- ↑ 312Margueritte#1,281 → #969
- ↑ 306Syble#807 → #501
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.