Jessey — boys' name

What the Data Says About Jessey

The Social Security Administration has registered 922 babies named Jessey between 1920 and 2022, spanning 103 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jessey currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 48 babies received it in a single year. Jessey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 287 additional births since 1978.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jessey performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 316 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Jessey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 64 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jessey in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jessey 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 922 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.