Jessye

Where Jessye comes from

Jessye 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. 1889
    First appearance
    #1,147 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1890
    Peak, #940
    9 babies named Jessye — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1945
    Jessye Norman born
    American opera singer
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Jessye Norman · American opera singer, 1945–2019

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.