Jessie

Where Jessie comes from

From Jess + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jessie
  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #36 among girls — 635 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #34
    661 babies named Jessie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #534.
  4. 1989
    Jessie Buckley born
    Irish actress and singer
  5. 1992
    Jessie Andrews born
    American businesswoman, former porn actress
  6. 2010
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Jessica.
  • A female given name.
  • A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Jesse.
Namesakes
  • Jessie Buckley · Irish actress and singer, born 1989
  • Jessie Andrews · American businesswoman, former porn actress, born 1992
  • Jessie Cave · British actress, born 1987
  • Jessie Fleming · Canadian soccer player, born 1998
  • Jessie T. Usher · American actor, 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.