girls:
738 births since 1889
#4978 (13th percentile)
overall:
738 births since 1889
#7001 (10th percentile)
The name Jessamine is the #7,001 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 738 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 9.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,978 (12.9% percentile) for all time with 738 births since 1889.
Jessamine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (first recorded for girls in 1889). Birth data for Jessamine is available in 76 out of the 135 years between 1889 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Jessamine reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #548) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 41 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jessamine ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 15.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jessamine".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jessamine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.5% confident that Jessamine is pronounced as JEH-suh-mihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-suh-meen, at 27.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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