Jessiah
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #1,808 for boys in 2025, 88 births
Given to boys 86.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 144 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,285since 1978
Jessiah over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #1,808 | 88 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #1,641 | 103 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | #1,727 | 96 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 | #1,414 | 130 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #1,307 | 143 |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | #1,271 | 144 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #1,479 | 116 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | #1,317 | 138 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 | #1,348 | 132 |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 | #1,641 | 97 |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 | #1,444 | 117 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | #1,536 | 104 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | #1,588 | 97 |
| 2012 | #8,632 | 13 | #1,863 | 78 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #2,232 | 58 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #2,118 | 63 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | #1,774 | 85 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #2,237 | 59 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 | #2,139 | 63 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #2,932 | 38 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | #2,297 | 51 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #2,599 | 41 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #2,674 | 37 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #2,943 | 31 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | — | #4,341 | 16 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,650 | 14 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,451 | 14 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,187 | 11 | |
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| 1994 | — | #4,537 | 13 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,227 | 14 | |
| 1992 | — | #5,660 | 9 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,884 | 10 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jessiah! It came in at #5,059, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1980, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Jessiah is popular in 1978
No state had 5 or more boys named Jessiah in 1978, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Jessiah
- 167 spots since 2024 (#1,641 → #1,808)
- 537 spots since 2020 (#1,271 → #1,808)
- 364 spots since 2015 (#1,444 → #1,808)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2020 at #1,271 (144 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,987 boys born in 2020 were named Jessiah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,410 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 43.8% of all boys named Jessiah (1,000) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #5,059 (1978) | #5,059 |
| 1980s | 28 | #3,884 (1983) | #5,198 |
| 1990s | 102 | #4,227 (1993) | #5,382 |
| 2000s | 445 | #1,774 (2009) | #2,748 |
| 2010s | 1,000 | #1,317 (2018) | #1,657 |
| 2020s | 704 | #1,271 (2020) | #1,528 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jessiah in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 273,640 of them was named Jessiah, which outranked 25.2% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,554Zeth7
- #4,554Ziad7
- #4,554Zubin7
- #5,059Jessiah6
- #5,059Aamir6
- #5,059Aaren6
- #5,059Abdel6
- #5,772Aalon5
- #5,772Aaraon5
- #5,772Abbas5
Tied with 712 names at #5,059; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.