Jesi
Jesi was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,945 among girls’ names; 600 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jesi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jesi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jesi is “plural of Jesus (male given name)”
Formed by application of Latin rules, changing -us to -i for the plural form.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jesi?
#15,945 among girls’ names, 2025
Jesi entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #15,945 in 2025.
29 babies in 1996, the peak
Jesi peaked in 1996, when 29 babies were given it (20 girls, #4,944 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,945 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,245 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,364 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,400 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,459 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,810 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,681 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,615 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,769 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,108 | 7.1 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 12 | #9,742 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,373 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,203 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,300 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,998 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,029 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,518 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,689 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,823 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,937 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,631 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,619 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,944 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,916 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,419 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,027 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,358 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,974 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,288 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,815 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,553 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,746 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,820 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,037 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,828 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,552 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,417 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,825 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,488 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,546 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,977 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,860 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jesi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 600 Americans recorded as Jesi, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jesi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jesi, and how old are they?
An estimated 586 Americans named Jesi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 24 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 708 people named Jesi (628 women and girls, 80 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 575 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jesi 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 297,048 babies since 1880, Jesi is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 618 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
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 Jesi
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 Jesi and names like it
- Compare Jesi and JessieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJesi peaked in 1996.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jesi since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Jesi.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jesi alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.