Jessia
Jessia was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,283 among girls’ names; 676 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jessia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jessia?
#7,283 among girls’ names, 2025
Jessia fell from #4,101 in 2015 to #7,283 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.2 to 9.3 per million.
42 babies in 2019, the peak
Jessia peaked in 2019, when 42 girls were given it, #3,637 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,283 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,359 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,229 | 21.2 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,080 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,016 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,489 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,637 | 25.0 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,499 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,152 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,879 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,101 | 20.2 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,460 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,009 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,232 | 2.8 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,804 | 4.9 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,187 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,180 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,738 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,499 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,950 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,312 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,734 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,772 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,055 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,932 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,374 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,783 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,682 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,902 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,650 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,742 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,120 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,611 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,669 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,944 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,225 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,053 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,362 | 7.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jessia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jessia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jessia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jessia, and how old are they?
An estimated 663 Americans named Jessia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 7 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 720 people named Jessia (704 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 525 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 299,478 babies since 1880, Jessia is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 618 babies (2.4%), the fourth 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.
More about Jessia and names like it
- Compare Jessia and JessieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJessia peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jessia since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Jessia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jessia alive today were born 2013-2025.
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