Jessah

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jessah has been given to 148 babies in the U.S. since 1992. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Jessah, 2017

1 in 397,000

Jessah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jessah: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jessah means

Jessah is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jessah is used in Cebuano.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 148 girls were recorded with the name Jessah between 1992 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2007; its best national rank was #8,604 in 2016.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Jessah?

Jessah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017: 1 in 397,000; 9 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only: 1 in 192,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 275,497 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jessah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 275,497 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jessah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jessahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jessah was born before 2010 — so the typical Jessah is around 15 today.

Median birth year: 2010; About 15 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 52.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 95.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 148; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 52.0% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Jessah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2007 (13)
Years since peak: 18; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 41.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,604; 2016

Spellings of Jessah

Jessah is not the most common spelling — Jessie is, with 64.0% against Jessah's 0.06%.

Jessie64.0%170,036
Tessa21.1%55,926
Jesse4.7%12,492
Jessi2.5%6,553
Jessa2.4%6,462
Jennah1.2%3,115
Jessy0.79%2,101
Jesusa0.71%1,897

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Jessah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,604; 2016
Peak year: 2007; 13 that year
First recorded: 1992
Last recorded: 2017
All-time count: 148
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Jessah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Jeslin Jessly Jeshia Jessamy Jessic Jessel Achsah Jessia Jessiah Jesiah Jesyka Jeslie Jesly Jesyca Jessey Jessee Jessice Nafisah Jesseka Jessina Jessaca Jesicca Jesley Jeslyn

Sibling names for Jessah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Kalli Neveah Marlen Lupita Rhianna Marin Yuliana Keeley

For a brother

Nikhil Slade Brandt Nevin Ean Davian Isai Aryan

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