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

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Peak · girls
1981 · 273 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
6,553
since 1959

Jessi over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201989peak #646, 1981peak #1,400, 1987girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,10052#9,7147
2024#3,22549
2023#3,22550#12,2395
2022#3,36547#9,8237
2021#3,11252#10,7996
2020#2,85057
2019#2,75261#10,8036
2018#2,67764
2017#2,33878#10,7756
2016#2,56069#8,1469
2015#2,84661#8,0409
2014#2,84360#10,7176
2013#2,34478#7,53710
2012#2,93558#4,68620
2011#2,39577#4,65920
2010#2,13692#5,25117
2009#2,44678#3,33233
2008#1,756126#3,42132
2007#2,034100#5,21017
2006#1,825112#2,88139
2005#1,855104#2,96035
2004#1,654117#2,95334
2003#1,687113#3,18629
2002#1,483128#2,75534
2001#1,686107#3,32126
2000#1,588111#2,92230
1999#1,398126#2,72231
1998#1,341131#1,87152
1997#1,079174#2,16440
1996#988191#1,76452
1995#874219#1,91444
1994#827244#1,43467
1993#902214#1,49362
1992#963199#2,00239
1991#888221#1,89541
1990#911210#1,80943
1989#877210#1,70545
1988#888198#1,76839
1987#848203#1,40052
1986#768224#1,96230
1985#874183#2,29323
1984#879172#2,61318
1983#973150#1,90528
1982#810196#1,85030
1981#646273#1,43344
1980#982151#1,96528
1979#1,036134#2,37920
1978#1,096119#2,92914
1977#1,25795#3,03713
1976#1,49969#3,26411
1975#2,41133#4,3097
1974#3,11022#4,6346
1973#3,63517
1972#4,09114
1971#4,12314
1970#5,06110#4,7245
1969#6,6176
1968#4,7799
1967#6,0426
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First appearance
1959

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
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
22 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1959
  • Peaked 1981 at #646 (273 births)
  • Births halved by 1998, 17 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 17 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1980–1996
Share of babies · girls
1 in 6,110
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 29.9% of all girls named Jessi (1,960) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#6,245 (1959)#6,245
1960s31#4,779 (1968)#6,149
1970s527#1,036 (1979)#2,732
1980s1,960#646 (1981)#855
1990s1,929#827 (1994)#1,017
2000s1,096#1,483 (2002)#1,801
2010s698#2,136 (2010)#2,583
2020s307#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 1989

girls
#877
210 births · 1 in 8,779 girls
boys
#1,705
45 births · 1 in 44,465 boys

Top girls' names in 1989

  1. #1Jessica47,887
  2. #2Ashley47,588
  3. #3Brittany37,792
  4. #4Amanda36,834
  5. #5Sarah27,797
  6. #6Samantha24,792
  7. #7Jennifer24,006
  8. #8Stephanie22,766
  9. #9Lauren21,065
  10. #10Elizabeth20,298
  11. #877Jessi210

Top boys' names in 1989

  1. #1Michael65,415
  2. #2Christopher53,186
  3. #3Matthew45,375
  4. #4Joshua44,100
  5. #5David35,225
  6. #6Daniel35,007
  7. #7Andrew34,817
  8. #8Justin32,852
  9. #9James32,720
  10. #10Robert30,072
  11. #1,705Jessi45
More about 1989

girls

1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 8,779 of them was named Jessi, which outranked 94.0% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jessi
  1. #874Danika211
  2. #874Kasie211
  3. #874Keely211
  4. #877Jessi210
  5. #877Cory210
  6. #877Kristan210
  7. #880Elsa209
  8. #880Gianna209
  9. #880Laquita209

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. 9,523Audriana#10,386#863
  2. 7,504Martika#8,391#887
  3. 6,932Audrianna#7,691#759
  4. 3,972Elizabet#4,496#524
  5. 1,772Katherin#2,489#717
Fallers
  1. 539Diandra#905#1,444
  2. 524Taja#720#1,244
  3. 455Jonathan#999#1,454
  4. 445Katarina#960#1,405
  5. 397Caryn#816#1,213

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 44,465 of them was named Jessi, which outranked 81.5% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jessi
  1. #1,678Shimon46
  2. #1,678Tarek46
  3. #1,678Truman46
  4. #1,705Jessi45
  5. #1,705Antuan45
  6. #1,705Arik45
  7. #1,705Armond45
  8. #1,733Armen44
  9. #1,733Benjiman44
  10. #1,733Bert44

Tied with 27 names at #1,705; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. 6,314Kiara#7,270#956
  2. 5,870Alexande#6,426#556
  3. 1,111Kwame#1,768#657
  4. 766Kadeem#1,467#701
  5. 684Hakeem#1,270#586
Fallers
  1. 839Long#819#1,658
  2. 337Darell#981#1,318
  3. 294Whitney#890#1,184
  4. 269Trevin#840#1,109
  5. 252Curt#850#1,102

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1989