Jessy
Jessy is given to both girls and boys: 30 girls and 18 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,602 among girls’ names and #5,298 among boys’, #5,781 among all names counting both); 6,771 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,290 Americans named Jessy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jessy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jessy?
#5,298 among boys’ names, 2025
Jessy fell from #3,325 in 2015 to #5,298 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.7 to 10.5 per million.
263 babies in 1993, the peak
Jessy peaked in 1993, when 263 babies were given it (183 boys, #780 among boys’ names). The 48 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,602 | 18 | #5,298 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,245 | 19 | #5,147 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,940 | 25 | #4,267 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,245 | 26 | #4,134 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,467 | 24 | #4,295 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,601 | 20 | #4,774 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,206 | 21 | #4,696 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,134 | 25 | #4,139 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,510 | 23 | #4,384 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,383 | 27 | #3,927 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,183 | 34 | #3,325 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,292 | 36 | #3,121 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,476 | 53 | #2,379 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,542 | 38 | #3,024 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,688 | 55 | #2,328 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,794 | 62 | #2,157 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,701 | 83 | #1,801 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,739 | 94 | #1,649 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,084 | 90 | #1,690 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,105 | 78 | #1,782 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,378 | 82 | #1,653 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,657 | 94 | #1,460 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,831 | 108 | #1,299 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,867 | 97 | #1,362 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,067 | 80 | #1,516 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,087 | 82 | #1,489 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,016 | 117 | #1,127 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,901 | 93 | #1,287 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,291 | 137 | #961 |
| 1996 | 52 | #2,457 | 149 | #896 |
| 1995 | 77 | #1,840 | 150 | #891 |
| 1994 | 81 | #1,785 | 168 | #816 |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,818 | 183 | #780 |
| 1992 | 71 | #1,950 | 188 | #757 |
| 1991 | 78 | #1,821 | 152 | #837 |
| 1990 | 57 | #2,238 | 180 | #754 |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,926 | 124 | #911 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,112 | 121 | #862 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,801 | 107 | #910 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,436 | 103 | #897 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,373 | 88 | #971 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,809 | 62 | #1,157 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,474 | 58 | #1,194 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,364 | 95 | #919 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,101 | 89 | #957 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,900 | 90 | #951 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,485 | 58 | #1,197 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,552 | 58 | #1,172 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,330 | 49 | #1,277 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,455 | 48 | #1,271 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,431 | 24 | #1,974 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,186 | 30 | #1,632 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,942 | 24 | #1,846 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 24 | #1,847 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 21 | #2,009 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,522 | 16 | #2,346 |
| 1969 | under 5 | 10 | #2,952 | |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,472 | 7 | #3,510 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 12 | #2,410 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,713 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 11 | #2,539 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 12 | #2,478 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 7 | #3,476 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 7 | #3,458 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 7 | #3,509 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 13 | #2,370 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 13 | #2,348 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 7 | #3,411 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 10 | #2,734 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,721 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 8 | #3,089 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 10 | #2,659 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 6 | #3,609 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 7 | #3,226 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 12 | #2,302 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 8 | #2,894 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 6 | #3,506 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 9 | #2,693 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 15 | #2,027 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 9 | #2,614 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 11 | #2,188 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 10 | #2,385 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 12 | #2,225 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,819 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 8 | #2,763 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 8 | #2,761 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 11 | #2,230 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 9 | #2,559 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 10 | #2,396 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 7 | #3,020 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 9 | #2,623 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 11 | #2,334 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 7 | #3,146 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 13 | #2,149 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 8 | #2,971 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 15 | #2,013 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 10 | #2,682 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 7 | #3,529 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 9 | #3,027 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 11 | #2,647 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 11 | #2,667 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 6 | #4,105 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 11 | #2,697 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 8 | #3,391 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 6 | #4,093 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 8 | #3,253 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 5 | #4,203 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,620 |
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 Jessy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,771 Americans recorded as Jessy, 31% are girls and 69% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jessy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jessy, and how old are they?
6,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 6,771 Americans ever recorded as Jessy. The median Jessy alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 7,736 people named Jessy (3,658 women and girls, 4,078 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,081 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 33 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 113 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 570 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,720 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 812 |
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 Jessy born?
The states with the most babies named Jessy are California, Texas and New York, with 70% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,142 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 446 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 241 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 210 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Washington | 57 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 56 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 56 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oregon | 45 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 35 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 32 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Jessy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jessy is most over-represented in California: since 1915 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Jessy 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 455,434 babies since 1880, Jessy is the second most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 2,139 babies (2.2%), 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 Jessy
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 Jessy and names like it
- Compare Jessy and JesseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJessy peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jessy since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Jessy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jessy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.