Jessey
Jessey was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,139 among boys’ names; 1,216 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Jessey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 24 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jessey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jessey?
#10,139 among boys’ names, 2025
Jessey fell from #8,331 in 2015 to #10,139 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 4.1 per million.
60 babies in 1994, the peak
Jessey peaked in 1994, when 60 babies were given it (48 boys, #1,804 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 7 | #10,139 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 7 | #10,281 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #12,962 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 8 | #9,253 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,611 | 9 | #8,458 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,003 | 7 | #10,177 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,163 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 9 | #8,331 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,463 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,781 | 9 | #8,417 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #18,008 | 11 | #7,214 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,231 | 17 | #5,354 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,350 | 21 | #4,657 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,508 | 18 | #5,152 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,376 | 16 | #5,535 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,899 | 8 | #9,095 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,338 | 13 | #6,022 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,250 | 14 | #5,618 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,034 | 8 | #8,190 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,213 | 22 | #3,848 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,011 | 16 | #4,767 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,363 | 22 | #3,692 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,467 | 10 | #6,243 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,882 | 23 | #3,339 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,626 | 22 | #3,298 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,898 | 26 | #2,861 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,246 | 36 | #2,230 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,303 | 48 | #1,804 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,518 | 35 | #2,228 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,877 | 33 | #2,269 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,228 | 41 | #1,899 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,054 | 42 | #1,852 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,424 | 41 | #1,840 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,972 | 21 | #2,718 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,189 | 22 | #2,507 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 22 | #2,463 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,374 | 25 | #2,194 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 20 | #2,480 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 22 | #2,306 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 16 | #2,901 | |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,027 | 22 | #2,293 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 17 | #2,783 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,852 | 11 | #3,680 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,977 | 5 | #6,251 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,834 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 11 | #3,369 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 11 | #3,222 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,447 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,700 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 6 | #4,480 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 7 | #3,390 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,351 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,720 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 5 | #3,905 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 5 | #4,045 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 7 | #3,392 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,488 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 8 | #3,268 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 7 | #3,643 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 6 | #4,067 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 7 | #3,698 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 8 | #3,350 |
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 Jessey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,216 Americans recorded as Jessey, 24% are girls and 76% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jessey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jessey, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,216 Americans ever recorded as Jessey. The median Jessey alive today is 32 years old; half are between 24 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,110 people named Jessey (328 women and girls, 782 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,113 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 89 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 567 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 362 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 88 |
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).
How common is the spelling Jessey?
Jessey is a less common spelling of Jessy: SSA has recorded 1,216 Jessey and 6,771 Jessy since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 455,327 babies since 1880, Jessey is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 2,139 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
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 Jessey
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 Jessey and names like it
- Compare Jessey and JessyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJessey peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jessey since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Jessey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jessey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.