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Jessup

Boy · JES-up · English

Jessup is a boys' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).

What does Jessup mean?

English: English surname, a form of Jessop, itself from Joseph

An English surname, a medieval form of Joseph, also spelled Jessop.

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JES-up

Is Jessup a girl's or a boy's name?

Jessup is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jessup in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,710among boys
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 240,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Jessup, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 1995, with 23 boys. It first appears in the records in 1948.

Half of all the boys named Jessup in the US since 1880 were born between 1991 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.

1948Busiest: 23 in 19952025
Jessup in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20257#9,710
20240–
20239#8,250
20228#8,983
20215#12,141
202010#7,497
20199#8,209
20180–
201712#6,681
20168#8,811
201512#6,671
20147#9,636
20138#8,784
20128#8,858
20118#8,760
201012#6,692
20098#8,980
20089#8,319
200713#6,259
20060–
200514#5,572
200412#6,132
200310#6,708
200210#6,515
200119#4,115
200010#6,309
199917#4,157
199821#3,482
19978#6,612
199612#4,871
199523#3,015
199415#4,088
199319#3,362
199210#5,228
199118#3,319
19908#5,816
198911#4,521
198812#3,910
19870–
19868#4,848
19859#4,328
19840–
19830–
19820–
198112#3,410
198013#3,255
197912#3,356
19786#5,056
19770–
19767#4,416
19750–
19745#5,225
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19630–
19620–
19610–
19600–
19590–
19580–
19570–
19560–
19550–
19540–
19530–
19520–
19510–
19500–
19490–
19485#3,665

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