Jessalyn
Jessalyn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2001132 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1918
- 3,673people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,673 girls have been named Jessalyn in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 132 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2003, and the 2000s alone account for 30%.
By decade
In 2001, its biggest year
Jessalyn was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2001 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Ashley and Alexis. See all of 2001.
Names that rose and fell with Jessalyn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Janessapeak 2009
- Janaipeak 2006
- Kallipeak 2007
- Keilapeak 2006
- Amberlynpeak 2011
- Andreyapeak 2008
- Erynnpeak 1999
- Callipeak 1999
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.