Jessee
Jessee was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,958 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Jessee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 27 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jessee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jessee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jessee is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
Fanciful respelling of Jesse.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jessee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,280, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
72 babies in 1990, the peak
Jessee peaked in 1990, when 72 babies were given it (55 boys, #1,532 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,342 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 7 | #10,280 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #12,986 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 6 | #11,222 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 8 | #9,252 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 5 | #13,057 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,906 | 6 | #11,394 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #10,163 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #9,121 | |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,718 | 5 | #12,954 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | under 5 | 8 | #9,170 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 7 | #10,199 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 14 | #6,081 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,230 | 14 | #6,186 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 7 | #10,362 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 15 | #5,904 | |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,374 | 15 | #5,775 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,898 | 20 | #4,590 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,627 | 16 | #5,142 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,104 | 24 | #3,791 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,325 | 26 | #3,477 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,850 | 10 | #6,759 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,010 | 19 | #4,200 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,473 | 22 | #3,691 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,836 | 21 | #3,636 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,881 | 23 | #3,338 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,998 | 29 | #2,708 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,182 | 33 | #2,397 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,537 | 50 | #1,761 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,948 | 42 | #1,991 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,794 | 43 | #1,912 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,733 | 51 | #1,680 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,621 | 50 | #1,656 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,381 | 55 | #1,532 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,139 | 42 | #1,808 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,722 | 39 | #1,776 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,625 | 31 | #1,989 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,803 | 24 | #2,321 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,868 | 33 | #1,811 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,483 | 30 | #1,862 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 29 | #1,878 | |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,117 | 34 | #1,714 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,474 | 24 | #2,160 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,517 | 22 | #2,315 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 16 | #2,836 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 16 | #2,727 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 18 | #2,506 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 16 | #2,653 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 25 | #1,913 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 14 | #2,731 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 11 | #3,115 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 8 | #3,789 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 12 | #2,890 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 14 | #2,564 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 9 | #3,188 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 6 | #3,913 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 5 | #4,239 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 8 | #3,108 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 9 | #2,956 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 11 | #2,603 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 7 | #3,457 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,350 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,490 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 9 | #2,926 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,219 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 11 | #2,555 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 12 | #2,429 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 11 | #2,491 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 8 | #3,058 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 12 | #2,342 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 9 | #2,775 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 7 | #3,174 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 7 | #3,156 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 8 | #2,987 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 12 | #2,125 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 7 | #3,088 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 10 | #2,454 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 5 | #3,764 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 9 | #2,577 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 6 | #3,283 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 10 | #2,400 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 13 | #2,044 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 8 | #2,821 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 8 | #2,841 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 7 | #3,145 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 11 | #2,390 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 5 | #4,271 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 15 | #2,050 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 15 | #2,104 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 12 | #2,468 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 14 | #2,253 | |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,365 | 11 | #2,666 |
| 1924 | under 5 | 11 | #2,739 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 10 | #2,849 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 21 | #1,728 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 13 | #2,433 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 14 | #2,280 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 11 | #2,586 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 15 | #2,113 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 10 | #2,634 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 5 | #4,202 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 12 | #2,242 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 9 | #2,360 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 9 | #2,016 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 5 | #1,718 | |
| 1901 | under 5 | 5 | #1,130 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 6 | #1,018 | |
| 1887 | under 5 | 5 | #996 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 5 | #1,052 | |
| 1880 | under 5 | 6 | #872 |
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 Jessee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,958 Americans recorded as Jessee, 16% are girls and 84% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jessee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jessee, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 1,958 Americans ever recorded as Jessee. The median Jessee alive today is 35 years old; half are between 27 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,480 people named Jessee (333 women and girls, 1,147 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,554 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 94 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 186 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 746 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 388 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 82 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 455,327 babies since 1880, Jessee is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,139 babies recorded by SSA was a Jessee (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 Jessee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Chancey | 1,733 |
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 Jessee and names like it
- Compare Jessee and JesseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJessee peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jessee since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Jessee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Jessee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jessee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.