Jessa

Where Jessa comes from

20th-century coinage from Jessie + feminine suffix -a; compare Jenna from Jenny.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jessa
  • Vowel-ended
Jessa through the years
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #4,809 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1971
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 1993
    Jessa Rhodes born
    American pornographic actress
  4. 2001
    Jessa Khan born
    Cambodian ju-jitsu practitioner
  5. 2015
    Peak, #544
    572 babies named Jessa, the most in any year.
  6. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,057.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Jessa Rhodes · American pornographic actress, born 1993
  • Jessa Khan · Cambodian ju-jitsu practitioner, born 2001
  • Jessa Duggar · American reality television participant, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.