Jessi — #3273 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Jessi

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,497 babies named Jessi between 1959 and 2024, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jessi currently holds the #3273 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 273 babies received it in a single year. Jessi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,314 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jessi performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,960 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Jessi shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 594 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jessi in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jessi 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 6,497 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.