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How popular is “Jesselyn” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jesselyn” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jesselyn” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jesselyn” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jesselyn” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jesselyn” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jesselyn” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jesselyn” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1918 5 0.000002303 5 100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 100%
1985 13 0.000003642 13 100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 100%
1988 19 0.000005142 19 100%
1989 30 0.000007803 30 100%
1990 30 0.00000759 30 100%
1991 14 0.000003594 14 100%
1992 17 0.000004426 17 100%
1993 22 0.000005835 22 100%
1994 16 0.000004304 16 100%
1995 15 0.000004096 15 100%
1996 17 0.000004661 17 100%
1997 23 0.000006344 23 100%
1998 12 0.000003262 12 100%
1999 15 0.000004061 15 100%
2000 16 0.000004233 16 100%
2001 12 0.000003206 12 100%
2002 10 0.000002675 10 100%
2003 21 0.000005523 21 100%
2004 6 0.00000157 6 100%
2005 12 0.000003121 12 100%
2006 14 0.000003539 14 100%
2007 14 0.000003502 14 100%
2008 12 0.000003053 12 100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2010 8 0.000002165 8 100%
2011 15 0.000004101 15 100%
2012 11 0.000003008 11 100%
2013 9 0.000002469 9 100%
2014 11 0.000002968 11 100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 100%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 100%
2018 5 0.000001422 5 100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 100%

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