Jessey
#10,139 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jessey has been given to 1,216 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #10,139 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 48 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 76% boys, 24% girls all-time.
Babies named Jessey, 2025
1 in 474,000
Jessey over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Jessey over time
In 2025, Jessey went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Jessey?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,139
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jessey sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jessey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jesseys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jessey was born before 1992 — so the typical Jessey is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 34.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 871
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (316).
Is Jessey 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
- +2,824
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,808
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.78×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 14.6%
- Peak was 1994 (48)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.0% average annual change
Spellings of Jessey
Jessey is not the most common spelling — Jesse is, with 50.4% against Jessey's 0.11%.
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.
Where Jessey is used
Across 1910–2025, Jessey was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 335,565 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jessey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jessey around the world
Where Jessey 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.
- France2000–2000#4,380in 2000
- Canada1991–2017#2,944in 2017
- South Australia1991–2000#556in 2000
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jessey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jessey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jessey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.