Jessy
#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births · #5,208 for boys in 2025, 18 births
Given to boys 69.0% of the time
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- Peak · boys
- 1992 · 188 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,670since 1915
Jessy over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #4,546 | 30 | #5,208 | 18 |
| 2024 | #4,207 | 34 | #5,067 | 19 |
| 2023 | #3,911 | 38 | #4,220 | 25 |
| 2022 | #4,202 | 34 | #4,089 | 26 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | #4,247 | 24 |
| 2020 | #4,548 | 29 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #4,162 | 34 | #4,639 | 21 |
| 2018 | #3,107 | 52 | #4,094 | 25 |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #4,345 | 33 | #3,883 | 27 |
| 2015 | #4,144 | 35 | #3,299 | 34 |
| 2014 | #3,272 | 49 | #3,090 | 36 |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 | #2,364 | 53 |
| 2012 | #4,486 | 32 | #3,002 | 38 |
| 2011 | #3,659 | 42 | #2,317 | 55 |
| 2010 | #4,735 | 30 | #2,144 | 62 |
| 2009 | #3,677 | 43 | #1,797 | 83 |
| 2008 | #3,710 | 43 | #1,639 | 94 |
| 2007 | #4,050 | 38 | #1,681 | 90 |
| 2006 | #4,073 | 36 | #1,769 | 78 |
| 2005 | #3,366 | 45 | #1,648 | 82 |
| 2004 | #3,631 | 40 | #1,460 | 94 |
| 2003 | #3,805 | 36 | #1,296 | 108 |
| 2002 | #2,854 | 52 | #1,357 | 97 |
| 2001 | #3,046 | 46 | #1,514 | 80 |
| 2000 | #3,070 | 45 | #1,487 | 82 |
| 1999 | #2,991 | 44 | #1,126 | 117 |
| 1998 | #2,889 | 45 | #1,288 | 93 |
| 1997 | #2,283 | 59 | #962 | 137 |
| 1996 | #2,451 | 52 | #897 | 149 |
| 1995 | #1,837 | 77 | #893 | 150 |
| 1994 | #1,786 | 81 | #817 | 168 |
| 1993 | #1,815 | 80 | #782 | 183 |
| 1992 | #1,947 | 71 | #757 | 188 |
| 1991 | #1,818 | 78 | #841 | 152 |
| 1990 | #2,234 | 57 | #758 | 180 |
| 1989 | #1,925 | 67 | #911 | 124 |
| 1988 | #3,095 | 32 | #862 | 121 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 | #908 | 107 |
| 1986 | #2,420 | 41 | #896 | 103 |
| 1985 | #2,362 | 42 | #970 | 88 |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | #1,154 | 62 |
| 1983 | #3,431 | 23 | #1,190 | 58 |
| 1982 | #3,344 | 25 | #917 | 95 |
| 1981 | #3,066 | 28 | #954 | 89 |
| 1980 | #2,866 | 31 | #945 | 90 |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 | #1,193 | 58 |
| 1978 | #3,512 | 21 | #1,170 | 58 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 | #1,268 | 49 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | #1,267 | 48 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 | #1,948 | 24 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | #1,618 | 30 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #1,817 | 24 |
| 1972 | — | #1,819 | 24 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,987 | 21 | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #2,293 | 16 |
| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | — | #2,352 | 12 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,476 | 11 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,409 | 12 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,315 | 13 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,295 | 13 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,631 | 10 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,535 | 6 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,592 | 10 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,246 | 12 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,770 | 8 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,608 | 9 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,988 | 15 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,534 | 9 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,131 | 11 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,309 | 10 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,182 | 12 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,656 | 8 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,671 | 8 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,159 | 11 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,332 | 10 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,529 | 9 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,266 | 11 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,101 | 13 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,864 | 8 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,964 | 15 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,589 | 10 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,357 | 7 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,912 | 9 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,566 | 11 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,588 | 11 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,614 | 11 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
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| 1919 | — | #3,115 | 8 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1915
The first year at least five boys were named Jessy! It came in at #3,392, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1918, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 141 spots since 2024 (#5,067 → #5,208)
- 510 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #5,208)
- 1,909 spots since 2015 (#3,299 → #5,208)
- Biggest jump: 248 spots in 1980 (#1,193 → #945)
- Biggest drop: 326 spots in 1998 (#962 → #1,288)
Rise & fade · boys
77 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1992 at #757 (188 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 16 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1985–1997
Share of babies · boys
1 in 10,625
- Highest: 1 in 10,625 boys born in 1992 were named Jessy (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,893 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 32.5% of all boys named Jessy (1,517) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2022
- Mostly boys until 2021, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 19 | #3,115 (1919) | #3,468 |
| 1920s | 79 | #2,566 (1926) | #3,068 |
| 1930s | 100 | #1,964 (1930) | #2,455 |
| 1940s | 93 | #1,988 (1947) | #2,594 |
| 1950s | 87 | #2,246 (1951) | #2,883 |
| 1960s | 92 | #2,315 (1960) | #2,929 |
| 1970s | 352 | #1,170 (1978) | #1,638 |
| 1980s | 937 | #862 (1988) | #971 |
| 1990s | 1,517 | #757 (1992) | #912 |
| 2000s | 888 | #1,296 (2003) | #1,565 |
| 2010s | 374 | #2,144 (2010) | #3,316 |
| 2020s | 132 | #4,089 (2022) | #4,588 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jessy in 1915
boys
#3,392
6 births · 1 in 141,429 boys
Top boys' names in 1915
More about 1915
boys
848,575 boys got a published name in 1915; 1 in 141,429 of them was named Jessy, which outranked 22.7% of the 4,390 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).