Jessah
Jessah was last recorded in 2017, when 9 babies were given it; 148 Americans have been recorded with it between 1992 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jessah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jessah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,096, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 2007, the peak
Jessah peaked in 2007, when 13 girls were given it, #9,241 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 9 | #11,096 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,604 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,322 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,390 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,449 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,784 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,683 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,937 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,982 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,241 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #18,414 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,337 | 4.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,117 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,449 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,663 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,775 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,958 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,409 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jessah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jessah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jessah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jessah, and how old are they?
An estimated 147 Americans named Jessah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 12 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 186 people named Jessah (182 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 147 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 Jessah?
Jessah is a less common spelling of Jessa: SSA has recorded 148 Jessah and 6,467 Jessa since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 298,878 babies since 1880, Jessah is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 613 babies recorded by SSA was a Jessah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jessah
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 Jessah and names like it
- Compare Jessah and JessaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJessah peaked in 2007.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jessah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jessah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.