Jessy

Where Jessy comes from

Jessy hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,392 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Jessy Matador born
    French and DR Congolese singer
  3. 1986
    Jessy Schram born
    American actress
  4. 1992
    Peak, #757
    188 babies named Jessy — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1998
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,288.
  6. 2022
    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

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jessy Matador · French and DR Congolese singer, born 1982
  • Jessy Schram · American actress, born 1986
  • Jessy Mendiola · Filipino actress, born 1992
  • Jessy Moulin · French association football player, born 1986
  • Jessy Kramer · Dutch handball player, born 1990

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.