Jessiah
#1,817 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jessiah has been given to 2,634 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #1,817 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 144 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% boys, 13% girls all-time.
Babies named Jessiah, 2025
1 in 37,700
Jessiah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Jessiah over time
In 2025, Jessiah went to 7% girls and 93% 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 Jessiah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 37,700
- 88 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 19,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,817
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 26,114 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jessiah 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 26,114 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jessiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jessiahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jessiah was born before 2016 — so the typical Jessiah is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,285
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.8% of all recorded uses (1,000).
Is Jessiah 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
- −172
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −544
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −369
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.75×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 61.1%
- Peak was 2020 (144)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.5% average annual change
Spellings of Jessiah
Jessiah is not the most common spelling — Josiah is, with 46.5% against Jessiah's 0.71%.
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 Jessiah is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Jessiah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 15,526 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 8,333
- 2Texas1 in 11,111
- 3North Carolina1 in 12,500
- 4South Carolina1 in 12,500
- 5Alabama1 in 14,286
- 6California1 in 14,286
- 7Georgia1 in 14,286
- 8Illinois1 in 16,667
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.
Where Jessiah is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Jessiah was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,023,410 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Jessiah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jessiah around the world
Where Jessiah 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 & Wales2000–2019#4,702in 2019
- Canada2009–2019#2,583in 2019
- South Australia1999–2004#589in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jessiah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jessiah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Jessiah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jessiah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Jessiah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.