Jese
Jese was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,912 among boys’ names; 462 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jese by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jese?
#7,912 among boys’ names, 2025
Jese fell from #4,219 in 2015 to #7,912 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.5 to 5.9 per million.
33 babies in 2014, the peak
Jese peaked in 2014, when 33 boys were given it, #3,333 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,912 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,383 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,458 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,007 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,369 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,795 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,381 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,133 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,645 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,023 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,219 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,333 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,169 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,243 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,214 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,183 | 4.2 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,622 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,519 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,152 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,369 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,733 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,033 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,502 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,786 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,237 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,536 | 4.7 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,722 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,301 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,646 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,564 | 6.6 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,607 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,530 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,638 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,590 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,726 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,642 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,503 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,051 | 5.5 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,393 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,873 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,682 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,390 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,302 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,198 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,445 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jese a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jese has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jese: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jese, and how old are they?
An estimated 449 Americans named Jese and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 11 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 503 people named Jese (33 women and girls, 470 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 404 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Jese?
Jese is a less common spelling of Jesse: SSA has recorded 462 Jese and 444,920 Jesse since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 455,434 babies since 1880, Jese is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 2,139 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
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 Jese
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 Jese and names like it
- Compare Jese and JesseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJese peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jese since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Jese.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jese alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.