Jessie — #806 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Jessie

The Social Security Administration has registered 169,704 babies named Jessie between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jessie currently holds the #806 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 3,591 babies received it in a single year. Jessie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 111,202 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jessie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 29,289 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Jessie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 10,624 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Jessie in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jessie 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 169,704 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.