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 | ||
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| 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 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Carolina#618 · 1 in 3,334
- Illinois#944 · 1 in 6,831
- Texas#973 · 1 in 7,693
- Florida#982 · 1 in 7,518
- California#1,116 · 1 in 11,154
Best ever in a state: #528 in Alabama, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #618 | 6 | 1 in 3,334 |
| Illinois | #944 | 8 | 1 in 6,831 |
| Texas | #973 | 22 | 1 in 7,693 |
| Florida | #982 | 12 | 1 in 7,518 |
| California | #1,116 | 17 | 1 in 11,154 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,201 | 5 | 1 in 10,799 |
| North Carolina | #1,205 | 5 | 1 in 9,789 |
| Georgia | #1,300 | 5 | 1 in 10,055 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 80,827 of them was named Jessiah, which outranked 66.6% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,667Zhara21
- #5,667Zharia21
- #5,667Zissel21
- #5,850Jessiah20
- #5,850Aaralyn20
- #5,850Addilee20
- #5,850Adel20
- #6,083Aaminah19
- #6,083Aava19
- #6,083Abrar19
Tied with 232 names at #5,850; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 11,987 of them was named Jessiah, which outranked 91.0% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,262Kallen145
- #1,262Khai145
- #1,262Zephyr145
- #1,271Jessiah144
- #1,271Aubrey144
- #1,271Ishmael144
- #1,271Kenai144
- #1,280Adiel143
- #1,280Amar143
- #1,280Caysen143
Tied with 8 names at #1,271; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.