Jessiemae
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jessiemae has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1921, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Jessiemae, 1922
1 in 286,000
Jessiemae 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jessiemae?
Jessiemae had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1922, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1922
- 1 in 286,000
- 8 of 2,289,103 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 150,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1922
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 198,337 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jessiemae sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1922 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 198,337 children born in 1922 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jessiemae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jessiemaes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jessiemae was born before 1920 — so the typical Jessiemae is around 105 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 51.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 51.2% of all recorded uses (22).
Is Jessiemae 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1921 (8)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.0% average annual change
Jessiemae around the world
Where Jessiemae 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 & Wales2004–2023#5,688in 2023
- South Australia1997–1997#681in 1997
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.
Jessiemae by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jessiemae
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jessiemae
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.