Jessiah — #1645 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jessiah

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,196 babies named Jessiah between 1978 and 2024, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jessiah currently holds the #1645 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 144 babies received it in a single year. Jessiah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 342 additional births since 2000.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jessiah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 999 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Jessiah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 261 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jessiah in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jessiah 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 2,196 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.