Jessa — #2037 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Jessa

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,376 babies named Jessa between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jessa currently holds the #2037 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 572 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jessa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,006 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Jessa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 514 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Jessa in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jessa 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 6,376 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.