Jessen
Jessen was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,864 among boys’ names; 365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jessen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jessen?
#12,864 among boys’ names, 2025
Jessen fell from #6,123 in 2015 to #12,864 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 2.9 per million.
16 babies in 2002, the peak
Jessen peaked in 2002, when 16 boys were given it, #4,790 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,864 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,197 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,370 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,223 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,017 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,134 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,395 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,445 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,123 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,833 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 | #7,783 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,266 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,757 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,184 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,438 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,962 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,423 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,646 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,846 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,308 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,153 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,790 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,673 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,417 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,773 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,371 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,953 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,684 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,341 | 3.7 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,840 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,363 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,563 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,890 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,834 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,476 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,205 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,128 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,929 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,170 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,802 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,198 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,991 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,645 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jessen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jessen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jessen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jessen, and how old are they?
An estimated 355 Americans named Jessen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 397 people named Jessen (52 women and girls, 345 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 337 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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).
Names spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jessen
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.