Jessicah
Jessicah was last recorded in 2004, when 6 babies were given it; 295 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jessicah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jessicah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jessicah is “a female given name, variant of Jessica.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jessicah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,965, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1992, the peak
Jessicah peaked in 1992, when 21 girls were given it, #4,752 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | #14,965 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,884 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,597 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,248 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,386 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,665 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,361 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,064 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,346 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,127 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 9 | #9,050 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,752 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,382 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,526 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,175 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,723 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,548 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,565 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,803 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,333 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,599 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,336 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,687 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,025 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,904 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,034 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,540 | 5.9 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,483 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jessicah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jessicah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jessicah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jessicah, and how old are they?
An estimated 287 Americans named Jessicah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 32 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 299 people named Jessicah (296 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jessicah
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.