Jesi — unisex name
557 babies named Jesi in U.S. Social Security records since 1977, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
34% of everyone ever named Jesi was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Jesi in 1989 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jesi
The Social Security Administration has registered 557 babies named Jesi between 1977 and 2023, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jesi currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 26 babies received it in a single year. Jesi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 38 additional births since 1986.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jesi performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 191 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Jesi shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jesi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jesi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 557 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jesi at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Jesi popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1977
- Peak year (1989)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 47 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
557 total births across 47 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1989 with 26 births in a single year.
Jesi popularity over time — boys
38 total births recorded since 1986 (Jesi as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Jesi accounts for 6% of total recorded use across both genders.
Jesi by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 191 births that decade — 34% of Jesi's all-time total
Jesi decade highlights
- Peak decade 191 births
- Runner-up 171 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Jesi's strongest decade
191 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Jesi by state
Where Jesi concentrates geographically — total births since 1977
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 12 | 2.2% |
12 of 557 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1977–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.