Jessi
#3,100 for girls in 2025, 52 births · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to girls 83.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1981 · 273 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,553since 1959
Jessi 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 | #3,100 | 52 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #3,225 | 49 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,225 | 50 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #3,365 | 47 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #3,112 | 52 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #2,850 | 57 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,752 | 61 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #2,677 | 64 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,338 | 78 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #2,560 | 69 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #2,846 | 61 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #2,843 | 60 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #2,344 | 78 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #2,935 | 58 | #4,686 | 20 |
| 2011 | #2,395 | 77 | #4,659 | 20 |
| 2010 | #2,136 | 92 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | #2,446 | 78 | #3,332 | 33 |
| 2008 | #1,756 | 126 | #3,421 | 32 |
| 2007 | #2,034 | 100 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #1,825 | 112 | #2,881 | 39 |
| 2005 | #1,855 | 104 | #2,960 | 35 |
| 2004 | #1,654 | 117 | #2,953 | 34 |
| 2003 | #1,687 | 113 | #3,186 | 29 |
| 2002 | #1,483 | 128 | #2,755 | 34 |
| 2001 | #1,686 | 107 | #3,321 | 26 |
| 2000 | #1,588 | 111 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #1,398 | 126 | #2,722 | 31 |
| 1998 | #1,341 | 131 | #1,871 | 52 |
| 1997 | #1,079 | 174 | #2,164 | 40 |
| 1996 | #988 | 191 | #1,764 | 52 |
| 1995 | #874 | 219 | #1,914 | 44 |
| 1994 | #827 | 244 | #1,434 | 67 |
| 1993 | #902 | 214 | #1,493 | 62 |
| 1992 | #963 | 199 | #2,002 | 39 |
| 1991 | #888 | 221 | #1,895 | 41 |
| 1990 | #911 | 210 | #1,809 | 43 |
| 1989 | #877 | 210 | #1,705 | 45 |
| 1988 | #888 | 198 | #1,768 | 39 |
| 1987 | #848 | 203 | #1,400 | 52 |
| 1986 | #768 | 224 | #1,962 | 30 |
| 1985 | #874 | 183 | #2,293 | 23 |
| 1984 | #879 | 172 | #2,613 | 18 |
| 1983 | #973 | 150 | #1,905 | 28 |
| 1982 | #810 | 196 | #1,850 | 30 |
| 1981 | #646 | 273 | #1,433 | 44 |
| 1980 | #982 | 151 | #1,965 | 28 |
| 1979 | #1,036 | 134 | #2,379 | 20 |
| 1978 | #1,096 | 119 | #2,929 | 14 |
| 1977 | #1,257 | 95 | #3,037 | 13 |
| 1976 | #1,499 | 69 | #3,264 | 11 |
| 1975 | #2,411 | 33 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #3,110 | 22 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #3,635 | 17 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,091 | 14 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,123 | 14 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jessi! It came in at #6,245, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1966, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jessi is popular in 1977
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#396 · 1 in 3,697
- California#1,513 · 1 in 18,696
Best ever in a state: #142 in South Dakota, 1980.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #396 | 7 | 1 in 3,697 |
| California | #1,513 | 8 | 1 in 18,696 |
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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 Jessi
- 125 spots since 2024 (#3,225 → #3,100)
- 250 spots since 2020 (#2,850 → #3,100)
- 254 spots since 2015 (#2,846 → #3,100)
- Biggest jump: 336 spots in 1981 (#982 → #646)
- Biggest drop: 164 spots in 1982 (#646 → #810)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1981 at #646 (273 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1980–1996
- Highest: 1 in 6,110 girls born in 1981 were named Jessi (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,909 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.9% of all girls named Jessi (1,960) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,245 (1959) | #6,245 |
| 1960s | 31 | #4,779 (1968) | #6,149 |
| 1970s | 527 | #1,036 (1979) | #2,732 |
| 1980s | 1,960 | #646 (1981) | #855 |
| 1990s | 1,929 | #827 (1994) | #1,017 |
| 2000s | 1,096 | #1,483 (2002) | #1,801 |
| 2010s | 698 | #2,136 (2010) | #2,583 |
| 2020s | 307 | #2,850 (2020) | #3,146 |
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.
Jessi in 1977
Top girls' names in 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
girls
1,533,146 girls got a published name in 1977; 1 in 16,138 of them was named Jessi, which outranked 88.9% of the 11,329 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,247Patsy96
- #1,247Portia96
- #1,247Twyla96
- #1,257Jessi95
- #1,257Camilla95
- #1,257Estela95
- #1,257Malika95
- #1,268Barbie94
- #1,268Cecily94
- #1,268Chantal94
Tied with 10 names at #1,257; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 126,402 of them was named Jessi, which outranked 55.7% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,910Waylan14
- #2,910Weslee14
- #2,910Zachry14
- #3,037Jessi13
- #3,037Adrion13
- #3,037Agustine13
- #3,037Akim13
- #3,203Adelbert12
- #3,203Adron12
- #3,203Akira12
Tied with 165 names at #3,037; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.