# Jessalyn (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jessalyn/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,700 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 3,700 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 7, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 99 | 1,990 |
| 2012 | 100 | 1,960 |
| 2013 | 99 | 1,980 |
| 2014 | 98 | 2,017 |
| 2015 | 116 | 1,803 |
| 2016 | 102 | 1,965 |
| 2017 | 77 | 2,369 |
| 2018 | 55 | 2,977 |
| 2019 | 64 | 2,694 |
| 2020 | 53 | 3,042 |
| 2021 | 32 | 4,365 |
| 2022 | 47 | 3,389 |
| 2023 | 24 | 5,312 |
| 2024 | 26 | 5,077 |
| 2025 | 27 | 4,928 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 4 | 3,126 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |

## People named Jessalyn

- Jessalyn Gilsig, Canadian actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.