Jessilyn
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 11 babies a year in the US.
Jessilyn by the numbers
Jessilyn was given to 11 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 26 babies in 1991, making it a 1990s name.
What we can tell you about Jessilyn
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jessilyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Jesslynwealthy; a form of Jessica with -lyn suffix99 in the US (2017)
- Jessalynwealthy; a form of Jessica76 in the US (2017)
- JesselynGod hears; a form of Jessica with -lyn suffix10 in the US (2017)
- Jossilyn5 in the US (2017)
- Josslynjoyful; a form of Jocelyn108 in the US (2017)
- Josselynmember of the Gauts people; a form of Jocelyn94 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Jessilyn
Names that are said the same way as Jessilyn, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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