Jessel — unisex name

What the Data Says About Jessel

The Social Security Administration has registered 174 babies named Jessel between 1991 and 2017, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jessel currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Jessel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10 additional births since 1927.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jessel performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 78 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Jessel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 22 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jessel in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jessel 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 174 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.