Jessie
Jessie is a girl's name that peaked in 1918, when it was the 75th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 823rd. About 115,000 Jessies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 43.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jessie boys named Jessie
Girls and boys called Jessie
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Jessie crossed from boys to girls in 2010, having already crossed in 1950, and has stayed there for 16 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 72% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 146 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 281,367
- Estimated living today
- 115,000
- Median age today
- 43
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 75th
- Rank in 2025
- 823rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 170,036 / 111,331
How old the living Jessies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 281,367 babies given the name since 1880, about 115,000 are alive — 41 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 32,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1982 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jessies
- Jessie J (born 1988)English singer
- Jessie Buckley (born 1989)Irish actress, singer and songwriter
- Jessie Ware (born 1984)British singer
- Jessie Andrews (born 1992)American businesswoman, former porn actress
- Jessie Diggins (born 1991)US-American cross-country skier
- Jessie Cave (born 1987)British actress
- Jessie Fleming (born 1998)Canadian soccer player
- Jessie T. Usher (born 1992)American actor
People named Jessie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jessie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jessie is most concentrated in Mississippi (5.7×), Arkansas (3.5×), Alabama (3.4×), South Carolina (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular girls’ names the year Jessie peaked:
Jessie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Jessie | 5,605 | 216th |
| England and Wales girls | Jessie | 5,519 | 168th |
| New Zealand girls | Jessie | 1,123 | 46th |
| France boys | Jessie | 570 | 702nd |
| Scotland girls | Jessie | 413 | 177th |
| Ireland girls | Jessie | 400 | 244th |
| Belgium girls | Jessie | 364 | 205th |
| England and Wales boys | Jessie | 199 | 1,440th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Jessie | 150 | 134th |
| Ireland boys | Jessie | 34 | 337th |
| Belgium boys | Jessie | 13 | 782nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jessie: rank by region
In 2011, Jessie was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jessie | 664 | 7 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jessie among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Jessie | 2,337 | 2,637 |
| the Netherlands boys | Jessie | 440 | 536 |
| Finland girls | Jessie | 29 | 42 |
| Finland boys | Jessie | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Jessie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.