Jessi
Jessi is given to both girls and boys: 52 girls and 7 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,118 among girls’ names and #10,140 among boys’, #5,039 among all names counting both); 7,874 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,670 Americans named Jessi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 22 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jessi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jessi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jessi is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jessi?
#3,118 among girls’ names, 2025
Jessi fell from #2,865 in 2015 to #3,118 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.2 to 32.4 per million.
317 babies in 1981, the peak
Jessi peaked in 1981, when 317 babies were given it (273 girls, #648 among girls’ names). The 59 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #3,118 | 7 | #10,140 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,252 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,245 | 5 | #13,084 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,389 | 7 | #10,282 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,136 | 6 | #11,371 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,867 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,770 | 6 | #11,388 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,698 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 78 | #2,347 | 6 | #11,396 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,580 | 9 | #8,446 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,865 | 9 | #8,332 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,861 | 6 | #11,355 |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,354 | 10 | #7,784 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,951 | 20 | #4,777 |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,399 | 20 | #4,738 |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,142 | 17 | #5,355 |
| 2009 | 78 | #2,456 | 33 | #3,363 |
| 2008 | 126 | #1,759 | 32 | #3,452 |
| 2007 | 100 | #2,044 | 17 | #5,306 |
| 2006 | 112 | #1,828 | 39 | #2,902 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,864 | 35 | #2,980 |
| 2004 | 117 | #1,658 | 34 | #2,979 |
| 2003 | 113 | #1,691 | 29 | #3,232 |
| 2002 | 128 | #1,485 | 34 | #2,784 |
| 2001 | 107 | #1,687 | 26 | #3,360 |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,590 | 30 | #2,942 |
| 1999 | 126 | #1,404 | 31 | #2,755 |
| 1998 | 131 | #1,342 | 52 | #1,884 |
| 1997 | 174 | #1,080 | 40 | #2,184 |
| 1996 | 191 | #986 | 52 | #1,767 |
| 1995 | 219 | #871 | 44 | #1,934 |
| 1994 | 244 | #826 | 67 | #1,438 |
| 1993 | 214 | #902 | 62 | #1,496 |
| 1992 | 199 | #966 | 39 | #2,015 |
| 1991 | 221 | #887 | 41 | #1,900 |
| 1990 | 210 | #911 | 43 | #1,820 |
| 1989 | 210 | #875 | 45 | #1,715 |
| 1988 | 198 | #888 | 39 | #1,777 |
| 1987 | 203 | #849 | 52 | #1,411 |
| 1986 | 224 | #768 | 30 | #1,984 |
| 1985 | 183 | #875 | 23 | #2,322 |
| 1984 | 172 | #879 | 18 | #2,650 |
| 1983 | 150 | #974 | 28 | #1,924 |
| 1982 | 196 | #810 | 30 | #1,872 |
| 1981 | 273 | #648 | 44 | #1,443 |
| 1980 | 151 | #985 | 28 | #1,984 |
| 1979 | 134 | #1,040 | 20 | #2,421 |
| 1978 | 119 | #1,100 | 14 | #2,981 |
| 1977 | 95 | #1,259 | 13 | #3,101 |
| 1976 | 69 | #1,507 | 11 | #3,370 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,426 | 7 | #4,547 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,151 | 6 | #4,913 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,694 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,175 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,189 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,200 | 5 | #5,069 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,973 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,921 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,333 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,931 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,196 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,661 | under 5 |
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 Jessi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,874 Americans recorded as Jessi, 83% are girls and 17% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jessi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jessi, and how old are they?
7,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 7,874 Americans ever recorded as Jessi. The median Jessi alive today is 32 years old; half are between 22 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 8,230 people named Jessi (6,886 women and girls, 1,344 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,407 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jessi rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 763 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,840 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 844 |
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).
Where are babies named Jessi born?
The states with the most babies named Jessi are California, Texas and Florida, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 873 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 675 | #1,848 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 196 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 183 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 161 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 148 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 139 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 124 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 122 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 118 | not ranked | 0.7× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jessi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jessi?
Jessi is a less common spelling of Jessie: SSA has recorded 7,874 Jessi and 281,367 Jessie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 299,478 babies since 1880, Jessi is the second most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 618 babies (9.5%), the third most given that year.
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 Jessi
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 Jessi and names like it
- Compare Jessi and JessieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJessi peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jessi since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Jessi.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jessi alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.