Girls' name · since 1986
Jessena
12 babies named Jessena in U.S. Social Security records since 1986, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 12
- total births
- 1986–2001
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 58%
- born in that decade
12 girls have been named Jessena since 1986, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Jessena has 12 recorded births among girls since 1986, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1986 to 2001.
- 12 total births
- 1986–2001 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 58% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jessena's 12 recorded births place it above 27% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jessena's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Jessena's full recorded timeline at 2001, 58% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 42% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1986, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2001 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Jessena popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1986–2001
- Peak year (2001)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 16 years of records
Jessena by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Jessena's strongest decade.
7 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Jessena births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 7 births (58% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1986–2001 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jessena: Baby Name Since 1986 - 12 Births, Peak 2001." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jessena. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jessena draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.