Jessup
Hebrew
"Jehovah increases"
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Updated Tue Feb 03 2026
Jessup Origin and Meaning
Variation of Joseph
Famous People Named Jessup
- Jessup Nash CouchAmerican lawyer; former Justice of the Ohio State Supreme Court
- Connor JessupCanadian actor
The name Jessup in Pop Culture
- Jessup DollyRee's missing father in the movie 'Winter's Bone' (2010)
- Doremus Jessupliberal 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 Jessopa different form of Joseph.
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