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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 6,110 of them was named Jessi, which outranked 94.7% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #643Karissa276
- #644Lyndsay275
- #645Cristin274
- #646Jessi273
- #646Carey273
- #646Daphne273
- #646Kami273
- #651James272
- #652Doris271
- #652Griselda271
Tied with 4 names at #646; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 40,709 of them was named Jessi, which outranked 80.3% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,411Sedric45
- #1,411Trung45
- #1,411Yusef45
- #1,433Jessi44
- #1,433Adonis44
- #1,433Antron44
- #1,433Burt44
- #1,456Adolph43
- #1,456Anand43
- #1,456Austen43
Tied with 22 names at #1,433; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.