Jes
Jes was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 126 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jes by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jes mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Jes is “a male given name, diminutive of Jens (“John”)”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jes?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,260, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1975, the peak
Jes peaked in 1975, when 13 boys were given it, #2,985 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #12,260 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,961 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,670 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,951 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,683 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,340 | 3.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,959 | 4.6 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,809 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,431 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,495 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 6 | #6,284 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,899 | 4.3 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,500 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,389 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,301 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,248 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,985 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,276 | 4.5 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,228 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,218 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jes a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jes has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jes: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jes, and how old are they?
An estimated 117 Americans named Jes and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 31 and 50. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 713 people named Jes (338 women and girls, 375 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 119 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jes rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 272,642 babies since 1880, Jes is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,112 babies recorded by SSA was a Jes (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jes
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jes and names like it
- Compare Jes and JesusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJes peaked in 1975.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Jes: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Jes.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jes alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.