Jessiah
Jessiah was given to 88 boys in 2025, #1,817 among boys’ names; 2,634 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,610 Americans named Jessiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jessiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jessiah?
#1,817 among boys’ names, 2025
Jessiah fell from #1,448 in 2015 to #1,817 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 61.0 to 51.5 per million.
164 babies in 2020, the peak
Jessiah peaked in 2020, when 164 babies were given it (144 boys, #1,273 among boys’ names). The 95 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 58% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,474 | 88 | #1,817 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,859 | 103 | #1,645 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,633 | 96 | #1,731 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,758 | 130 | #1,418 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,570 | 143 | #1,314 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,958 | 144 | #1,273 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,855 | 116 | #1,482 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,548 | 138 | #1,322 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,928 | 132 | #1,353 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,059 | 97 | #1,649 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,040 | 117 | #1,448 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,689 | 104 | #1,542 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,324 | 97 | #1,596 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,854 | 78 | #1,872 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,859 | 58 | #2,247 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,688 | 63 | #2,133 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,663 | 85 | #1,777 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,395 | 59 | #2,247 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,424 | 63 | #2,149 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,561 | 38 | #2,950 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,552 | 51 | #2,310 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,106 | 41 | #2,613 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,326 | 37 | #2,695 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,596 | 31 | #2,976 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,468 | 19 | #4,201 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,247 | 21 | #3,836 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 16 | #4,443 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 14 | #4,753 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 14 | #4,549 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 11 | #5,340 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 13 | #4,647 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 14 | #4,333 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 9 | #5,862 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 6 | #7,701 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #8,729 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,930 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 10 | #4,001 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,810 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 7 | #5,181 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,391 |
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 Jessiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,634 Americans recorded as Jessiah, 13% are girls and 87% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls and 88 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jessiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jessiah, and how old are they?
2,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,634 Americans ever recorded as Jessiah. The median Jessiah alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,478 people named Jessiah (258 women and girls, 1,220 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,888 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 82 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 831 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,690 |
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 Jessiah born?
The states with the most babies named Jessiah are Texas, Florida and California, with 76% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,380 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,299 | 1.0× |
| California | 8 | #1,910 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,380 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,103 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Jessiah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,101 babies since 1880, Jessiah is the second most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 95 of their 414 babies (23%), again the second 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 Jessiah
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 Jessiah and names like it
- Compare Jessiah and JesiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJessiah peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jessiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Jessiah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jessiah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.