Jessa
#2,214 for girls in 2025, 83 births · Last seen for boys in 1929 at #3,959
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 572 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,462since 1918
Jessa over time
Rank among girls' names. Jessa has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,214 | 83 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,033 | 96 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,984 | 99 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,710 | 122 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,284 | 179 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,318 | 167 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,247 | 187 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,057 | 242 | — | |
| 2017 | #870 | 314 | — | |
| 2016 | #675 | 433 | — | |
| 2015 | #544 | 572 | — | |
| 2014 | #834 | 332 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,152 | 208 | — | |
| 2012 | #988 | 255 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,111 | 222 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,030 | 242 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,254 | 196 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,774 | 124 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,560 | 145 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,567 | 138 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,073 | 90 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,667 | 116 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,970 | 92 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,142 | 78 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,807 | 98 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,869 | 91 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,874 | 84 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,801 | 86 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,845 | 80 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,539 | 103 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,514 | 103 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,416 | 113 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,485 | 107 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,575 | 98 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,537 | 101 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,716 | 85 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,027 | 62 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,187 | 52 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,991 | 56 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,620 | 37 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,253 | 45 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,515 | 37 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,975 | 28 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,418 | 24 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,119 | 48 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,440 | 39 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,671 | 33 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,474 | 35 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,002 | 26 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | — | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jessa! It came in at #4,809, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1971, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jessa is popular in 2001
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nebraska#309 · 1 in 1,364
- Minnesota#620 · 1 in 4,207
- Wisconsin#718 · 1 in 5,054
- Michigan#843 · 1 in 6,240
- Illinois#1,578 · 1 in 14,075
Best ever in a state: #140 in Montana, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Nebraska | #309 | 6 | 1 in 1,364 |
| Minnesota | #620 | 6 | 1 in 4,207 |
| Wisconsin | #718 | 5 | 1 in 5,054 |
| Michigan | #843 | 8 | 1 in 6,240 |
| Illinois | #1,578 | 5 | 1 in 14,075 |
| New York | #1,838 | 6 | 1 in 16,327 |
| California | #2,393 | 8 | 1 in 27,784 |
| Texas | #2,698 | 5 | 1 in 30,643 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jessa
- 181 spots since 2024 (#2,033 → #2,214)
- 896 spots since 2020 (#1,318 → #2,214)
- 1,670 spots since 2015 (#544 → #2,214)
- Biggest jump: 318 spots in 2014 (#1,152 → #834)
- Biggest drop: 195 spots in 2017 (#675 → #870)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 2015 at #544 (572 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2014–2017
- Highest: 1 in 3,121 girls born in 2015 were named Jessa (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,365 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 46.5% of all girls named Jessa (3,007) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,809 (1918) | #4,809 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 148 | #2,474 (1978) | #4,925 |
| 1980s | 428 | #1,991 (1987) | #2,455 |
| 1990s | 960 | #1,416 (1994) | #1,630 |
| 2000s | 1,168 | #1,254 (2009) | #1,768 |
| 2010s | 3,007 | #544 (2015) | #951 |
| 2020s | 746 | #1,284 (2021) | #1,757 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jessa in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 18,374 of them was named Jessa, which outranked 89.9% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,795Promise99
- #1,795Shaniyah99
- #1,795Valarie99
- #1,807Jessa98
- #1,807Callista98
- #1,807Cecily98
- #1,807Danyelle98
- #1,819Aliana97
- #1,819Amal97
- #1,819August97
Tied with 11 names at #1,807; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.