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Jessamy

#13,955 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jessamy has been given to 251 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #13,955 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1984, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Jessamy, 2025

1 in 553,000

Jessamy over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jessamy: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jessamy means

Jessamy is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Equivalent to Jasmine and Jessamine. Popularized by the character Jessamy in Barbara Sleigh's 1967 children's book Jessamy.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Jessamy (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Jessamy is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Jessamy is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛsəmi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 251 girls were recorded with the name Jessamy between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1984; its best national rank was #5,050 in 1984.

How common is Jessamy?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,955
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jessamy 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jessamy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jessamys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jessamy was born before 1988 — so the typical Jessamy is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
251
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (84).

Is Jessamy 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
−3,320
Places dropped
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
42.9%
Peak was 1984 (14)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,050
1984

Spellings of Jessamy

Jessamy is not the most common spelling — Jessa is, with 48.8% against Jessamy's 1.9%.

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.

Jessamy around the world

Where Jessamy ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2019
    #4,686
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1975–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jessamy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,955
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,050
1984
Peak year
1984
14 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
251
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Jessamy

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

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Sibling names for Jessamy

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

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