Jesiah
Jesiah was given to 277 boys in 2025, #865 among boys’ names; 5,167 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,120 Americans named Jesiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jesiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jesiah?
#865 among boys’ names, 2025
Jesiah rose from #1,107 in 2015 to #865 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.09 to 0.16 per 1,000.
356 babies in 2024, the peak
Jesiah peaked in 2024, when 356 babies were given it (314 boys, #804 among boys’ names). The 303 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 85% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,030 | 277 | #865 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,672 | 314 | #804 |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,121 | 275 | #865 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,096 | 189 | #1,123 |
| 2021 | 79 | #2,320 | 249 | #919 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,453 | 190 | #1,053 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,974 | 215 | #988 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,597 | 211 | #982 |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,894 | 200 | #1,013 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,678 | 185 | #1,068 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 69 | #2,602 | 174 | #1,107 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,950 | 146 | #1,243 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,322 | 196 | #1,003 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 172 | #1,086 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 166 | #1,112 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 171 | #1,113 | |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,981 | 172 | #1,079 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,506 | 162 | #1,130 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 120 | #1,377 | |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,863 | 112 | #1,412 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,301 | 71 | #1,820 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,962 | 62 | #1,960 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 54 | #2,085 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,604 | 52 | #2,073 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 37 | #2,584 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 44 | #2,232 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 26 | #3,142 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 16 | #4,285 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 12 | #5,095 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 12 | #5,012 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 13 | #4,640 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 10 | #5,645 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 9 | #5,960 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 11 | #4,918 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 7 | #6,758 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,407 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 8 | #5,432 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,496 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 10 | #4,190 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 8 | #4,747 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,733 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,806 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 10 | #3,982 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 5 | #6,005 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Jesiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,167 Americans recorded as Jesiah, 15% are girls and 85% boys. In 2025 it went to 26 girls and 277 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jesiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jesiah, and how old are they?
5,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,167 Americans ever recorded as Jesiah. The median Jesiah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 2,530 people named Jesiah (298 women and girls, 2,232 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,384 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 113 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,530 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jesiah born?
The states with the most babies named Jesiah are Texas, California and Florida, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 45 | #664 | 1.3× |
| California | 34 | #765 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 29 | #592 | 1.3× |
| New York | 12 | #1,018 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 12 | #732 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 11 | #818 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #801 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 10 | #490 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #957 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 8 | #978 | 0.4× |
Where Jesiah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jesiah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1976 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jesiah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,208 babies since 1880, Jesiah is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 303 of their 414 babies (73%), again the 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 Jesiah
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 Jesiah and names like it
- Compare Jesiah and JessiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJesiah peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jesiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Jesiah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jesiah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.