Jessup

Hebrew

"Jehovah increases"

Jessup Origin and Meaning

Variation of Joseph

Famous People Named Jessup

• Jessup Nash Couch American lawyer; former Justice of the Ohio State Supreme Court
• Connor Jessup Canadian actor

The name Jessup in Pop Culture

• Jessup Dolly Ree's missing father in the movie 'Winter's Bone' (2010)
• Doremus Jessup liberal editor of Vermont newspaper who becomes a revolutionary in the Sinclair Lewis novel 'It Can't Happen Here' (1935).
• The surname comes from the medieval male personal name Jessop a different form of Joseph.